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DJ, one ot the things now discussed in "secret wars" is replacing zelinsky with zalusny in Ukraine...however "to do what for who" ?

-biden wants to "continue his succesfull presidency"...so do his sponsors-for now...So "a victory for Ukraine" would be welcome...

-Poland is seeing a civilian uprise; farmers/truckers dealing with "unfair competition" from Ukraine under EU rules...also Poland has to deal with several million Ukrainians seeking safety in Poland...(some of them going up and down into west Ukraine..) 

-Poland may have lost thousands of its "volunteers" fighting in Ukraine-given all Poland could give now seeing Ukraine losing the war.

-Poland, Hungary have countrymenliving over the border in Ukraine-now being targeted by Ukraine recruiters to die in an insane war...

-Poland, Hungary, Romania also "have claims" on western Ukraine....

-The EU would "like to see an Ukraine victory" in the (false) hope to restart cheap energy imports from Russia....

-Baltics need security-may no longer trust NATO promisses...

So...maybe "NATO can move east" via Poland, Hungary,  Romania moving east ....(will Moldova be reunited with Romania in that deal ?) 

Russia will reclaim the east and south of Ukraine...what then remains of Ukraine "may be even allowed to join the EU" (because Ukraine is totally bankrupt)....

Russia may resume some energy exports to the EU via pipelines in (former) Ukraine...

...so western help did bring success ! NATO moving east, Ukraine joning the EU ! 

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Another question is what use the "israeli" war has for the US/west ? Will it stop BRICS ? Will it increase western control over oil and gas ? Increase western deterrence ? 

Some ideas of a "greater israel" include most of the Middle East....In such a scenario NATO-proxy "israel" would regain a function to control the Middle East North Africa (MENA) region...The price would for a large part have to be paid by "israel"...(just like in the NATO war against Russia most of the killed were Ukrainians...). 

Western phantasies did not expect Saudi Arabia, UAE, India sticking this much to the BRICS idea...Specially the US had the illusion India would give up its decades old good relations with Russia to become part of an India-Saudi-Israel trade link with the EU....

The Imran Khan coup in Pakistan was supposed to "limit" Pakistan working with China and Russia...however its replacement has no alternatives...Pakistan is the eastern part of the TIP-link Türkiye-Iran-Pakistan...with China investing in (rail)roads to boost China trade with Europe and Africa...

So the western dream of India-Saudi-Israel link (ISI) did not survive confrontation with reality either....The west may even welcome Saudia/UAE talking with Yemen Houthis over a ceasefire in the Red Sea....

DJ...my impression is the west had a "strategy based on wishfull dreaming" providing "israel" help in october 2023...Again..reality turned out to be completely different;

-the west expected a short military action in Gaza

-Very likely both the west and "israel" knew of the Hamas attack plans for october 7...

-However the "west" was shocked by "israeli" reaction-killing over a thousend Israelis to kill Hamas fighters/terrorists...

-My view; over and over "the west" is making deals with netanyahu...however if netanyahu only breaks those deals so far without any consequences...

-The "card" netanyahu is playing is "the west" may need "israel"....it is the last western influence in West Asia...(Yes there are over 50,000 US soldiers a.o. in Jordan, Qatar etc. but with "very limited" use...The US goal was to "offer protection against Iran" but now Saudi Arabia, UAE, Egypt and Iran are partners in BRICS...) 

-If the US/west stop "help" to "israel" it may lose its bridgehead in West Asia....(because it would mean the end of israel...) 

-biden still may need pro-"israel" support/donors for his re-election...During trump his presidency the US was even more "pro-israel"....

So...the west may be stuck...unable to stop israel -hoping it does not last that long...

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DJ...if both wars go wrong biden may restart his bla-bla over both the ongoing pandemic and climate collapse...He made both much worse...

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[url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Nijmegen[/url] or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Nijmegen and [url]https://www.gld.nl/nieuws/8096073/stralende-dag-veranderde-in-hel-80-jaar-na-het-bombardement[/url] or https://www.gld.nl/nieuws/8096073/stralende-dag-veranderde-in-hel-80-jaar-na-het-bombardement 

NIJMEGEN - It is probably one of the least known disasters in Dutch history, the bombing of Nijmegen on 22 February 1944. Some 800 people were killed and thousands injured. For a long time, it was hardly talked about, partly because the bombs came from American planes. But now, eighty years after the tragedy, there is more attention than ever, including a documentary with eyewitness accounts.

DJ The US bombing of Nijmegen -today 80 years ago- was the worst bombing in NL history...[url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_bombing_of_Rotterdam[/url] or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_bombing_of_Rotterdam did see less people killed...[url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_the_Bezuidenhout[/url] or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_the_Bezuidenhout ; The bombing of the Bezuidenhout (Dutchbombardement op het Bezuidenhout) took place on 3 March 1945,[7] when the Royal Air Force mistakenly bombed the Bezuidenhout neighbourhood in the Dutch city of The Hague resulting in the death of 532 citizens.

DJ, february 22-1944 did also see 57 civilians killed in Arnhem by US bombs...Deventer, Enschede also were attacked...

There still is a lot of discussion on why the US bombed that many Dutch cities that day ? If it was a mistake-how could such a big mistake have been made ? Some claims railways were supposed to be hit...in part it did also destroy NL railway links with Germany...for a short time...

Allied air raids on the Netherlands killed thousends in World War Two...[url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allied_bombing_of_Rotterdam_in_World_War_II[/url] or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allied_bombing_of_Rotterdam_in_World_War_II  also [url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuengamme_concentration_camp#Evacuations,_death_marches,_and_the_bombings_of_Cap_Arcona[/url] or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuengamme_concentration_camp#Evacuations,_death_marches,_and_the_bombings_of_Cap_Arcona did kill many concentrationcamp survivors...

(Some of them communists...again-during World War Two the west did also fight a war against communism in occupied Europe...). 

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!!! The Sunni military of the pro-Saudi regime in Yemen, without orders from their command, opened the main highway connecting the regime’s actual stronghold in Marib with the country’s capital, Sanaa, which is under the control of the Houthis. 
Ordinary Yemeni opponents from among the soldiers and officers who had previously fought against the Houthis, after they entered the war for the Palestinians, began en masse to go over to the side of the Houthis and recognize the power of the young President Mahdi Al-Mashat, the Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces of the Houthis in Yemen. 
Palestine has united the Yemenis, who have been killing each other since 2014, waking up from the heat of Saudi propaganda, recognizing the power of the true people's government of Yemen - Ansarallah.

 #Yemen  🇷🇺 Sofa General Staff (look what is nearby - oil and gas)

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Regional relationships developing in the Middle East are changing in ways that should give us and our friends in Israel serious pause. By April or May they will have a regional alliance and a readiness across the Muslim world to act against Israel and potentially America.

DJ, For "the west" Saudi Arabia, UAE, Egypt joining BRICS -and now even moving closer to Iran- must be a shock...A basic western/US idea was both Saudi Arabia and India could be "talked/bribed" out of BRICS...that strategy failed...

🇺🇸🇺🇦 A turning point is coming: the United States predicts a “catastrophic” shortage of ammunition in Ukraine as early as March, - ABC. 

▪️ABC News interlocutors called “the end of March” a particularly decisive time for the Armed Forces of Ukraine if Congress does not approve a project with funding for Ukraine. 

▪️ "The tipping point begins now, and it will gradually worsen through the spring and into the summer. So, this period that we are entering is critical," the Pentagon spokesman said. 

▪️US officials also predict a shortage of air defense assets. “What is protected today, they will not be able to protect these facilities in the future if they do not maintain the supply of interceptor missiles,” the US Department of Defense said. 

▪️And if Russia gains control of the skies, “it will completely change the nature of this fight,” the official added. http://t.me/RVvoenkor

DJ, what I understand of it...extra billions from US tax payers would go to US war industry...there are not much weapons to send...they first have to be produced...

🇲🇩🇷🇺 NO SLEEP TIL TRANSNISTRIA!!! Transnistria plans to join Russia.
 ➡️ Transnistria may appeal to Moscow for entry into Russia as soon as February 28, according to Transnistrian opposition leader Gennady Chorba. 
➡️ The leader of the republic, Vadim Krasnoselsky, is initiating the convocation of a congress of deputies at all levels due to "pressure from Moldova." 
ℹ️ Throughout the entire history of the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic (PMR), such congresses have been held only 6 times and have been associated with significant events. 

The last time such an event took place was in 2006, and as a result, it was decided to hold a referendum on the possible integration of the republic into Russia. Almost 97% of the residents of Transnistria who voted supported full integration with Russia. At the moment, Transnistria is under strong economic and political pressure from the authorities of Moldova. Chisinau hopes to reintegrate the republic by 2030 at the latest, as stated by the Minister of Defense of Moldova, Anatol Nosaty.

DJ, For Russia Transnistria becoming part of Russia may open the door to the Black Sea Coast/Odesa (or) Odessa. It will bring war close to Moldova/Romania...








At the International Court of Justice China points out that armed resistance against occupation is enshrined in international law and is not terrorism. A point that is rarely if ever heard in our mainstream media.

DJ...annexation is occupation going a step further...both in Palestine and in Ukraine...

DJ...stoltenberg claiming F16's can attack deep inside Russia...as long as there is a sign on it that the F16 is Ukrainian...Will NATO "rent ships" to Ukraine to attack Vladivostok, St.Petersburg...those ships being "Ukrainian" only during the attack ? 

MS mentioned yesterday Russia destroyed another patriot-basis...very likely killing up to 20 "UK volunteers"...With Ukraine running out of soldiers pushing in more and more western soldiers as "volunteer" is pushing us closer to an all out Russia/BRICS - NATO war...

NATO has limited soldiers, did send a large amount of weapons to Ukraine and "israel"...still "western politicians" believe "the west has to win"....The main reason why we are not yet in World War Three (or did die in a nuclear war)  is Russia/BRICS do not want such a war...(for now)...









I align with anyone of ANY party who is anti-war. Period.

DJ, in western dominant propaganda being against war makes you "pro-Putin" and "pro-Hamas/antisemitic"...Western main stream media/almost all politicians claim "these wars are good"...The "west" is defending human rights in Russia (and China, Iran, Syria etc)....while in fact the west is fighting for US$-dominance...control over energy...

Again...the west is isolated...the rest of the world is uniting in BRICS+...it is an impossible position for the west...The alternative is NOT surrender but cooperation...Nigeria is -like Egypt- the latest in a long list dumping the US$...

There remains a risk of "the west" acting as a very spoiled child-If we can not have everything we blow up the world....Insanity can kill...

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[url]https://www.dutchnews.nl/2024/02/us-and-britain-back-dutch-premier-mark-rutte-for-top-nato-job/[/url] or https://www.dutchnews.nl/2024/02/us-and-britain-back-dutch-premier-mark-rutte-for-top-nato-job/ ;

Dutch prime minister Mark Rutte is increasingly likely to become the next secretary general of Nato, now that American president Joe Biden and the British government have backed his appointment.

Both Reuters and Politico say that Biden’s support for Rutte, who has been prime minister for 13 years, has been confirmed.  “President Biden strongly endorses PM Rutte’s candidacy to be the next secretary general of Nato,” a US official told Reuters.

DJ...[url]https://www.politico.eu/article/nato-twist-romania-president-seeks-to-challenge-rutte-for-top-job/[/url] or https://www.politico.eu/article/nato-twist-romania-president-seeks-to-challenge-rutte-for-top-job/Klaus Iohannis wants to lead NATO, Romanian diplomats told counterparts in the defense alliance.

Romania notified allies on Thursday that President Klaus Iohannis was considering challenging frontrunner Mark Rutte for the NATO top job.

Iohannis' last-minute move comes as the biggest powers in the 31-strong alliance already declared support for Rutte over the last 24 hours, with the U.S., the U.K., Germany and France all saying they back the outgoing Dutch prime minister as the next leader of NATO.

About 10 countries remain undecided, including some Eastern European nations who share strategic concerns with Russia-skeptic Romania, but they will find it difficult to openly challenge U.S. President Joe Biden's preferred candidate.

NL did have a secretary-general post of NATO twice already;

-[url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Luns#NATO_Secretary-General_(1971%E2%80%931984)[/url] or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Luns#NATO_Secretary-General_(1971%E2%80%931984) ; 

As a young student he positioned himself on the political right, favouring a strong authority for the state and being of the opinion that socialism, because of its idealistic ideology, had fostered the rise of fascism and nazism.[4] Luns joined the National Socialist Movement in the Netherlands (NSB) in 1933 and left three years later but when questioned about it in later years, never admitted that it might have been "a youthful misjudgment".[5]

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Luns married Baroness Lia van Heemstra, who was a niece of Baroness Ella van Heemstra, the mother of actress Audrey Hepburn. The Lunses had two children − a son and a daughter.[5]

He remained a practising Catholic throughout his life and was generally sympathetic to the traditionalist Catholic position but never affiliated himself with dissident groups.

and

[url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaap_de_Hoop_Scheffer#NATO_Secretary_General_(2004%E2%80%932009)[/url] or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaap_de_Hoop_Scheffer#NATO_Secretary_General_(2004%E2%80%932009) 

DJ...NL supported the US invasion of Iraq...so "we did get a NATO job"...

[url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Rutte[/url] or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Rutte did follow US orders to the extreme...promoting war both in Ukraine and Palestine...however "rutte" is very experienced in saying sorry..."not having an active memory" when he is caught lying...

DJ-My view of rutte...he may be responsible for the deaths of thousends in NL...[url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_childcare_benefits_scandal[/url] or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_childcare_benefits_scandal ...inaction and lies during the CoViD pandemic-still ongoing...Climate change may be "news" for rutte...

No doubt the "perfect candidate" for a warmongering club like NATO....

In just over four months in #Gaza, there have been more #children, more journalists, more medical personnel, and more  staff killed than anywhere in the world during a conflict. It is with profound regret that I must now inform you that  has reached a breaking point, with Israel’s repeated calls to dismantle it and the freezing of funding by donors at a time of unprecedented humanitarian needs in Gaza. Read my letter to the President of the UN General Assembly  👇 https://unrwa.org/newsroom/official-statements/letter-commissioner-general-president-general-assembly

DJ, rutte was one of the first to stop UNRWA funding...while NL was sending spare parts of F35's to "israel" ...rutte visited "his friend" netanyahu several times since october...

So...with the election of a new "NATO leader" one could claim NATO is making clear its position in the world...rutte did end some speeches on Ukraine with the (fascist-bandera-rutte may not know it) salute "slava Ukraini"...[url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slava_Ukraini[/url] or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slava_Ukraini ;

In the 1930s, it became widespread as a slogan of the far-right Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN),[3] as well as Ukrainian diaspora groups and refugee communities in the West during the Cold War. In the Soviet Union, the phrase was forbidden and discredited by Soviet and later Russian authorities.

DJ [url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutschlandlied[/url] or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutschlandlied and [url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutschlandlied#Text[/url] or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutschlandlied#Text ...Germany gave up;

Germany, Germany above all
Above all in the world
When it always, for protection and defence
Brotherly stands together.
From the Meuse to the Neman
From the Adige to the Little Belt,

Somehow "the west" is blind for Ukraine nationalism becoming fascism....Like the west ignoring zionism becoming criminal...

One can defend "limited nationalism" but never can defend genocide !


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A look at the alternative for "rutte" as secretary general of NATO; 

[url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klaus_Iohannis[/url] or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klaus_Iohannis ;

Klaus Werner Iohannis (Romanian: [ˈkla.us joˈhanis]German: [ˈklaʊs joˈhanɪs]; also spelled Johannis; born 13 June 1959), sometimes referred to by his initials KWI in the Romanian press,[2][3] is a Romanian politician, physicist, and former physics teacher who has been serving as the president of Romania since 2014. He became the president of the National Liberal Party (PNL) in 2014, after previously serving as the leader of the Democratic Forum of Germans in Romania (FDGR/DFDR) between 2002 and 2013. Prior to entering national politics, he was a physics teacher at the Samuel von Brukenthal National College in his native Sibiu.

He was first elected the mayor of the Romanian town of Sibiu, Transylvania in 2000, on behalf of the Democratic Forum of Germans in Romania (FDGR/DFDR). Although the German (more specifically Transylvanian Saxon) population of the once predominantly German/Transylvanian Saxon-speaking town of Sibiu had declined to a tiny minority by the early 2000s, he won a surprise victory and was re-elected by landslides in 20042008, and 2012. He is credited with turning his home town into one of Romania's most popular tourist destinations, Sibiu subsequently obtaining the title of European Capital of Culture in 2007 alongside Luxembourg City, the capital of Luxembourg.

In October 2009, four of the five political groups in the Parliament, excluding the Democratic Liberal Party (PDL) of then President Traian Băsescu, proposed him as a candidate for the office of Prime Minister of Romania; however, Băsescu refused to nominate him despite the Parliament's adoption of a declaration supporting his candidacy.[4] He was again the candidate for Prime Minister of the PNL and the Social Democratic Party (PSD) in the elections in the same year.[5] In February 2013, He became a member of the National Liberal Party (PNL), accepting an invitation from then liberal leader Crin Antonescu, and was immediately elected the party's first vice-president, eventually becoming the PNL president during the following year.

Ideologically a conservative,[6][7][8][9] he is the first Romanian president belonging to an ethnic minority, as he is a Transylvanian Saxon, part of Romania's German minority, which settled in Transylvania beginning in the 12th century (as part of the Ostsiedlung process which took place during the High Middle Ages).[10] He was initially elected in 2014 and then subsequently re-elected by a landslide in 2019.

His late presidency (i.e. his second term) has been marked by democratic backsliding[11] as well as a slight shift towards illiberalism[12] and a more authoritarian[13] style of government, especially after the 2021 political crisis and the formation of the National Coalition for Romania (CNR).[14] It has faced allegations of suppression of freedom of speech and also suppression of press freedom.[15][16] Furthermore, his approval ratings have been drastically decreasing since April 2021 onwards as his electorate's trust in him declined tremendously based on his negative political behaviour, favouring the PSD and betraying both his voters as well as his former political allies (albeit several of them being solely conjunctural in the past) in the process (as well as making a long series of political errors). In 2023, The Economist ranked Romania the last country in the European Union (EU) in the world terms of democracy,[17][18] even behind Viktor Orbán's Hungary.[19][20][21][22][23] Moreover, as of 2022, Romania ranks 61st globally according to The Economist Democracy Index (on par with Montenegro), 5 positions behind Hungary and still lagging behind Botswana since at least 2021 onwards.[24][a] A survey from June 2023 shows that over 90% of Romanians do not trust Iohannis, with only 8% having a positive opinion on him.[26]

Various polls and political commentators have ranked Iohannis as the worst president of Romania since the 1989 Romanian Revolution.[27][28][29][30]

DJ...interesting...both NL and Romania want to get rid of a politician they grew tired of....

Just Keep Bringing Awareness To The Depravity Of The Empire In As Many Ways As Possible At this point in history the most effective way for westerners to fight the empire and build support for revolutionary change is to undermine public support for western status quo systems and institutions. 

One does this by using every means at their disposal to help people see that the power structures which rule over us don’t serve our interests, and that they are in fact profoundly evil and destructive.

 It takes a flash of insight for a westerner to be able to really see the perniciousness of the US-centralized empire in all its blood-soaked glory. 

This is because westerners spend their entire lives marinating in empire propaganda from childhood, which has normalized and manufactured their consent for the murderous, exploitative and oppressive power structure we live under. 

The current status quo is all they’ve ever known, and the idea that something better might be possible is alien to them.

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Nothing you do on this front is wasted effort. All positive changes in human behavior at any level are always preceded by an expansion of awareness, so anything you can do to help bring awareness to the reality of our situation is energy well spent. Any effort you make to shove human consciousness toward the light of truth in even the tiniest way has a beneficial effect on our species. 
DJ...related;

Dave DeCamp

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Doctors Without Borders says children as young as 5 in Gaza have told them they want to die

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Doctors Without Borders statement acknowledging the complicity of the United States

DJ...NATO was and is a force of evil...a continuation of "white men supremacy and racism"....colonialism/slavetrade, nazism and NATO are linked "in blood" to support western dominance the last 500 years....

"Why do the hate us ?" may be a good question ! However a lot of people do not want to know the answer...

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Since "war" is about winning or losing; 

The winners; 

-MIC; military industrial complex + some criminal banksters...Mainly in the west...From Rheinmetal-Germany to Lockheed-Martin, Raytheon, etc in the US...In most non western countries "strategic industries" are under state supervision or are owned by the state...so weapons, big pharma in most of the world can NOT go for "big profits"...

NATO may be exceptional in that aspect...

-Hamas, Houthis, Hezbollah...Yes NATO-proxy "israel" may have killed thousends of Hamas fighters...with that killed tens-of-thousends civilians...new members for Hamas must be much larger that NATO is able to kill...

The Houthis now are seen as hero's not only in all of Yemen but in almost all of the Arab world...now even get help from the Saudi's that did fight them for years...NATO "did attack" Houthi positions with missiles..each attack must cost NATO tens of millions...but it is NOT stopping the Houthis in stopping western shipping via the Red Sea...

-BRICS+ may be able to see a lot of new members in the Kazan/Ruusia october BRICS+ meeting...With Egypt, Nigeria de-dollar-izing NOW a main aspect of BRICS; trade in your own local/regional currency is already becoming a trend in most of the world...The "west" can not escape from it...Not all EU countries use the Euro/€ ...even they may decide to use their own currency for trade...

-Russian weapon producers...in his latest video MS had a US Abrams tank destroyed in Ukraine..."the best western weapons" (again) failing in Ukraine when confronted with "the best" Russian weapons...Part of that story is western weapons were NOT made for use in Ukraine...both the distance, mud/snow, winter show to break a lot of western weapons...In Iraq, Libya, Syria hot, dry weather and sand/dust also proved to "kill" western weapons...but the western enemies then were not as organized...

LOSERS !!!!

-You and me...as western citizen...not only is our tax money wasted in criminal wars...most political parties show themselves to be a "bunch of insane war mongers"!!!

I am a pacifist...we once had a pacifist party...Here in NL some of the "left" parties still may be a bit more skeptical...but so far we did not see massive protests against the NATO war in Ukraine (Lavrov-Russia FM- did warn on februari 1 -2008; Russia will see Ukraine and Georgia joining NATO as a provocation...). There have been some protests against the genocide on Palestinians...

In general however in most of the west most political parties support the ongoing wars...including sending billions in money and weapons to Ukraine, "israel"...a Red Sea NATO mission...

-Both Ukraine and "israel" are losers...their countries are destroyed..."over"...importing foreign workers/fighters does cost a lot of extra money but only delays talks...Palestinians are being killed by the thousends...they deserved better...

Humanity has lost...I hoped never to see a repeat of Worl War Two like crimes in my life...But the "equalization" of press/politics all going pro-war undermined my trust in democracy...Is everything for sale ? How far will it go ? 

I hope NOT to see nuclear war...however we have NEVER been this close to nuclear war before...

I did lose my trust in reason, ratio...people (also those in power) doing rational things...Not going for mass destruction. denial of genocide, pandemic, climate collapse...

I am not religious but making money a "god" is not my idea of civilization...

What is next; 

Ukraine is breaking down...only to see more western soldiers fighting in it as "volunteer"...A Russian AWACS was shot down east of Ukraine...unclear if that still may be sold as an Ukraine attack...NATO is getting more and more involved...

Over a thousand "Polish volunteers" were killed in Ukraine...hundreds of US, UK, Georgia, France "volunteers". Often they were "active duty" before moving to Ukraine...may still get paid by the west...Lots of modern western weapons are used in Ukraine-with Ukraine simply not having the military able to fully deal with high-tech western weapons...So who is in control of Himars, drones, etc ? "Western instructors and advisors"???? 

Western satellites and drones gather info for battlefield use...The US most likely blew up Nord Stream...Russia is still willing to "contain" the fighting to Ukraine...That ends when western fighter jets use bases in Poland, Romania etc. to attack Russian positions in Ukraine...

-"israel" may plan to continue "its actions" in Gaza, West Bank, Lebanon...Very likely "israel" did see hundreds of its soldiers killed...is in the worst war since 1948...So far "the region" did not get involved full scale...NATO is protecting its proxy...

However Egypt, Iran, Saudi Arabia, UAE -all in BRICS- will be in talks with both the region and Russia, China on "scenario's"...

Both in Ukraine, Palestine but also a.o. China/Taiwan and Korea time is on the side of BRICS....the "west/NATO" is wasting its resources in insane wars...

So if the west is destroying itself BRICS+ has a choice to "sit and wait" ...make trade not war outside most of the west...Even if that means lots of people getting killed...

The alternative may be much worse....On a daily basis between 1,000 and 2,000 people die in Ukraine and Palestine...all out open war may see millions killed per day...

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Very likely since the end of World War Two we never did see a day without someone dying somewhere because of military action..."War" may be very unwelcome...the "best" option "we" may have is trying to limit wars the most we can...

Is "war in human nature" ? Maybe it is...humans are far from perfect...There is enough proof chimpanzees have "wars"...one group fighting another group of chimpanzees...

"Following orders" ([url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment[/url] or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment ) may be part of a dark side of humans...Bloodthirst...a "kick from killing" . A.o. [url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T._E._Lawrence[/url] or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T._E._Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia) admitted to "get a kick" out of killing...[url]https://www.history.com/news/10-things-you-may-not-know-about-lawrence-of-arabia[/url] or https://www.history.com/news/10-things-you-may-not-know-about-lawrence-of-arabia (does not mention the kick)

[url]https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/why-soldiers-get-a-kick-out-of-killing/[/url] or https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/why-soldiers-get-a-kick-out-of-killing/ ;

Do some soldiers enjoy killing? If so, why? This question is thrust upon us by the recently released video of U.S. Apache helicopter pilots shooting a Reuters cameraman and his driver in Baghdad in 2007. Mistaking the camera of the Reuters reporter for a weapon, the pilots machine-gunned the reporter and driver and other nearby people.


The most chilling aspect of the video, which was made public by Wikileaks, is the chatter between two pilots, whose names have not been released. As Elizabeth Bumiller of The New York Times put it, the soldiers "revel in their kill." "Look at those dead bastards," one pilot says. "Nice," the other replies.

DJ...stress and power may "mix"...Some veterans get nightmares PTSD etc. others only develop mental issues at old age...or never...

I never killed someone-hope I never will see a situation that desperate...

A third aspect why "soldiers fight and kill" is group pressure..."brotherhood"....protecting "your" group against outside risks...(sometimes the outside risk may be the commander of the group...). 

DJ-If we want to avoid war we have to understand "war" better...From making profits to the psychiology of fighters willing to kill...



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[url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQLCYQsPInQ[/url] or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQLCYQsPInQ MS;

The Russians Captured Sieverne And Lastochkyne | F16 To Be. Military Summary And Analysis 2024.02.24

DJ...april may see F16's in action over Ukraine, MS wondering who did bring down another A-50 Russian AWACS...Russia claimed-again- "friendly fire"...Ukraine claimed a S-200 did shoot down the A-50 in SW Russia...The A-50 (russia has a limited number of them) can be used to detect/follow F16's...

[url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0UJ0H3c9tw[/url] or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0UJ0H3c9tw The Duran;

Legal experts green light Russian asset seizure. Medvedev, F16 warning

DJ, To 'celebrate" two years of succesfull western provocations resulting in the Ukraine war EU-UK-US;

-sanction companies from India, Türkiye, China that do bussiness with Russia...DJ-outcome will be the west even more isolated...

-steal Russian assets in western institutions, DJ Russia and allies may "take over/freeze" western assets...again-it is making the position of the west weaker in the international trade system...

-very likely find ways to send more (military/financial) aid to Ukraine...

Even if the west puts together 500 billion in "aid" it may only prolong the war...not bring other results...

Weeb Union latest has two US Abrams tanks lossed..

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We may move to a "worst case scenario"; NATO putting in lots of weapons (V-STOL aircraft Vertical-Short Take Off and Landing) because the F16 -in a normal version- needs long runways...Lots of "western volunteers" using western weapons "to stop Russian agression"  and "defend human rights/navalny etc..."...

Ignoring most of the world think the main reason for the war in Ukraine is NATO moving east...ignoring over and over made warnings from Russia they can not accept NATO that close to Russian border...

The "west" did invest trillions in the Ukraine war since 2014....Ukraine has a lot of natural resources the west want to control..."Winning" the Ukraine war will open up Russia for the west and break up BRICS...

From that perspective "the west" can not give up "supporting Ukraine"....

However in the US republicans still rather fight China....

[url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXjiaU_4IwU[/url] or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXjiaU_4IwU WION-India;

Gravitas | UK's nuclear missile test flops | Iran unveils stealth warships | WION

The British Royal Navy has become a royal laughing stock. For the second time in a row, it has failed to successfully test-fire the Trident II nuclear missiles. These missiles are supposed to guard the UK should an enemy attack the country, but the British Navy does not seem to be able to figure out how to fire the missiles from its nuclear submarines.

DJ, for the second time the UK was unable to launch a missile from a submarine...the last succesfull launch goes back to 2012...In 2016 a test-missile-after launch-went towards the US instead of the south Atlantic...this time the second stage failed-so the missile almost hit the submarine where it came from...

The UK "did steal" an Australian submarine order for submarines from France last year in an AUKUS "deal"...

Iran presented two heavy armed high speed stealth warships...Iran may send those towards the Red Sea...in a coalition with Yemen ? 

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[url]https://twitter.com/caitoz/status/1761232043286159831[/url] or https://twitter.com/caitoz/status/1761232043286159831 

The west keeps supporting the genocide on Palestinians...in some countries even calling it a genocide is presented as "antisemitism" even if the remarks are made by Jewish people...

[url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7cMmoHXlgU[/url] or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7cMmoHXlgU Judge Napolitano;

INTEL Roundtable w/ Johnson & McGovern: Ukraine/Israel Intel Wrap

DJ...in the US some "politicians" go "kill them all" claiming ALL Palestinians are terrorists....Russo-phobia also a problem in intel...

DJ-my view-BRICS+ may try very hard to avoid an all out war...the only way the can archieve that is by disarming the west and cut of any funding/trade....

To many leaders are "blind"...most of the public not interested...The "energy-weapon" BRICS has is most effective in winter...spring is around the corner...

Unless there are coups in Ukraine, "israel" the west has decided to keep the wars -to stop BRICS- going and even seek escalation...even if that will destroy the west... 

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As always [url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wu5kdxcUzuM[/url] or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wu5kdxcUzuM New atlas/Brian Berletic with very good info/links (at the video);

Pentagon Admits Ukraine Aid Unsustainable + Why Neutrality is Ukraine's Only (Good) Option

Feb 25, 2024

Update on the conflict in Ukraine for February 25, 2024... 

- Russian forces have cleared Avdeevka, taking over a thousand Ukrainian soldiers prisoner, illustrating the disorganized nature of Ukraine’s withdrawal; 

- The US Department of Defense admits essential supporting elements for sustaining US weapon systems transferred to Ukraine were never provided, thus inhibiting the effective use of US arms by Ukrainians; 

- A fighting force makes up a small percentage of an overall military service because of the large amount of support infantry require on the modern battlefield. Without these supporting elements, a fighting force cannot sustain combat especially against a better supported force; 

- US military equipment is especially complex to sustain and maintain on the battlefield, a fact illustrated by US purchases of Russian helicopters for Afghan forces because US helicopters were too difficult to fly, maintain, and sustain; 

- The end game for Ukraine is particularly bleak considering the attritional nature of the conflict, Russia’s ability to outproduce Ukraine and its allies, and the unrealistic objectives Ukraine and its Western sponsors are attempting to achieve; 

- Attempts to focus on Russian military shortcomings while ignoring Ukrainian military shortcomings produces a fatally flawed perception of the conflict disallowing both the means and objectives of the fighting to be realistically evaluated;

DJ, The US/NATO repeating the mistakes made in Afghanistan now in Ukraine...In fact "politicians" making military decissions they do not seem to understand..

A modern -western- army is an "integrated" one...Not only do military need to know their own job/weapons...they also need to know what other military can offer...The goal/best use of each weapon in what kind of conflict...

DJ-"western leaders" think they can "push" a load of weapons into a country and "the weapons will win the war"...pretty insane !

-Ukraine military were in fact untrained to use the western weapons..

-So they at best only used a very tiny fragment of what those weapons can do...

-Without maintenance nearby those complex weapons most of the time are on transport for/from repairs...

-Those repairs are done in Poland...so the weapon had to make a 2,000 km trip...

-Lots of weastern weapons do NOT survive transport or stay behind on a frontline...

-On top of that some western weapons afe high priority targets for Russia...any sane Ukrainian stays away from it...because Russia will do all it can to destroy such weapon..

So...the same ingredients result in the same "meal"...only the place changed...Ukraine may have better roads than Afghanistan...distance/weather/duration all work against the "western aid"...

[url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3q7bzEREck[/url] or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3q7bzEREck MS;

Robotyne Has Fallen | Chaotic Retreat Of The Ukrainian Army. Military Summary 2024.02.24

DJ, Ukraine now is ready to recieve F16's...it has underground bunkers to hide them...may have enlarged some runways...

What I make of it;

-Ukraine now would have 12 Ukraine pilots for the F16's...Those pilots may be used to train other Ukraine pilots...

-However it takes years to become a trained F16 pilot...

-The now supposed to be ready Ukraine pilots first had to learn English...

-The "west" may have provided "quite a lot" of F16's

-There is a training base for Ukraine pilots in Romania

-The number of F16's may make some difference...a higher number will bring more changes...

DJ-My view; Some in the west want to "keep the Ukraine war going at ALL costs"....This may include western military -as volunteer- in Ukraine..

The west may be willing to create/print "billions (trillions ???)  of extra money to also "buy military experience" (a.o. Colombian mercenaries killed in Ukraine). 

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DJ-My view is the Ukraine war is part of a much larger conflict. In fact it may be NATO against BRICS...I do not see that view with the Duran, Judge Napolitano etc. They seem to think the "West Asia conflicts" and Ukraine are separate...

Maybe in short; Brazil-Russia-India-China-South Africa make the basic 5 BRICS members...Since 1-1-2024 Egypt, Iran, Saudi Arabia, UAE and Ethiopia joined the BRICS...(some now name that BRICS+)..Oktober BRICS+ will meet in Kazan/Russia to see what other nations can join and how...

DJ; BRICS enlargement may be "a bit of a problem" because there are dozens of countries waiting to join BRICS....

A country does NOT need to be a BRICS+ member to do trade with BRICS+...A basic BRICS+ point is trade in own/local currencies...A.o. Nigeria may dump the US$ for a lot of its trade...

BRICS+ could "focus" on some items;

-Energy could bring Algeria, Nigeria, Venezuela, Kazachstan, Iraq, Indonesia closer to BRICS+

-Strategic (trade) position may bring Nicaragua (alternative for the Panama-canal), Cuba, Thailand, Vietnam...

-Development may focus on Africa and/or Latin America...Kenya, Tanzania, Bolivia...

DJ...No doubt present BRICS+ members will have a lot of people working on how to "deal" with the future of BRICS...

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part 2, 

DJ...maybe some more ideas on BRICS+...

-Serbia could join BRICS+ ....it could be meant to "break open" SE Europe...

-Most Latin America leaders did join Lula da Silva-president of Brazil condemning the genocide in Palestine...The "West Asia crisis" may organize a lot of countries against "the west"...A lot of Arab leaders (in part under pressure by their population) now welcome support for the Yemen-Houthis...able to block support for "israel" via the Red Sea...even with a lot of NATO air strikes...

DJ, Yemen is one of the most poor countries in the world...Each larger western airstrike may cost (western tax payers) over 100 million US$...A cruise missile is 4 million US$...Houthis also shot down an "UAV" - US Unmanned Aerial Vehicle-drone costing over 32 million US$...

Again non-western shipping has no problem crossing the Red Sea...Western shipping making clear they would not even get near "israel" may also be able to cross (however western politics do not want western shipping companies making that kind of statements; "Freedom of navigation...Yemen does not need to know what destinations western ships have"...

There still is an overland-link from the Indian Ocean to Israel via Saudi Arabia/Jordan..."israel" may get some supplies...however at such high costs one may wonder if that landroute is a help or a weapon (for/against NATO-proxy 'israel")...

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[url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcCiA5BWy_g[/url] or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcCiA5BWy_g The Duran;

ICJ ruling ignored. Biden White House isolated 

DJ, The International Court of Justice (like the ICC in The Hague/Den Haag-NL) is part of the UN...

NATO-proxy "israel" keeps ignoring the rules given by the ICJ to "limit risks for genocide"....."israel" had some time to change its policies...after that the ICJ could transfer the (South African) case (against "israel") to the UN-SC...Security Council ...

The US did veto a call for a ceasefire...again...UK abstained the other 13 members of the UNSC voted for a cease fire...If the US -again- would veto a call for a -serious- cease fire in Gaza -after the ICJ case ended up in the UNSC- the "general assembly" may have a vote...

DJ...and then again we may end up with a NATO-west against BRICS+/rest confrontation...

Like in Ukraine "western leaders" use a lot of words...while their actions speak a different language...

AM-in The Duran-mentioned "israel" did NOT yet attack Rafah or Lebanon...very likely for military reasons...(NOT political ones..the "israel" politicians want both attack Rafah/Hamas and Lebanon/Hezbollah)..

DJ...My view; "zionist extremists" want a "greater israel" including most of West Asia...The "NATO-west" want to stop BRICS+...does "NATO welcome a greater israel in West Asia"?  It could undermine BRICS+...

Another "idea" could be to "connect" the Ukraine War with a West Asia war...Ukraine did ask Georgia to open a southern front against Russia...so far Georgia said no...It did fight Russia in 2008 and suffer heavy losses (South Ossetia now part of Russia ? [url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russo-Georgian_War[/url] or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russo-Georgian_War)..

Türkiye-under Erdogan-may NOT welcome such a scenario...so the US may go for "regime change" in T"urkiye...

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When you look at a map one can see three major conflicts on the Europe-Asia border. Those conflicts started in 2014 or just before that;

-1 Ukraine

-2 West Asia; Syria now also in Palestine

-3 Yemen/Red Sea

BRICS+ involvement;

Russia is involved in both Ukraine and Syria trying to stop western backed genocidal terrorists (nazi's, IS...IS fighters once were also spotted in southern Ukraine..) 

Iran has been target of "the US/west" since the 1979 revolution ending the sjah-dictatorship...(replacing it with an "Islamic-one"???) -Iran dominant in West Asia

Saudi Arabia and UAE did fight the Yemen Houthis since 2014...since the Chinese made peace between Saudi Arabia and Iran not only did "the Arab world" welcome back Syria-Assad...now also Saudi/UAE may become "friends" with the Houthis...

Of course Egypt and Ethiopia have Red Sea links-just like the Saudi's...

-The US goal is "the US as #1" "uni-polar" world...The US incontrol of the globe...US$ as the ONLY global trade currency (not only for energy but most international trade)...

Without the US$ -basis for US debt- the US can not be a superpower...It outsourced a lot of its industry in "globalization" to low-income countries..."Made in the USA" often means assembly in the USA...(at best)...Even US weapons may be "made in China"....(Microchips may come from Taiwan, South Korea) 

DJ...another aspect seems to be "EU members gave up having their own foreign policy"....Being Dutch I find that part totally UNaceptable !!!

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DJ, I did see an Israeli citizen protesting in Tel Aviv...he once admired Israel knesset members...the present "politicians" are disasters...I share that feeling...

Again...once I was "moderate left wing" but also NL politics have gone that bizarre I find myself "radical pro-peace"....isolated...Maybe linked to this feeling 

[url]https://www.dutchnews.nl/2024/02/ernst-kuipers-returns-to-academia-takes-post-in-singapore/[/url] or https://www.dutchnews.nl/2024/02/ernst-kuipers-returns-to-academia-takes-post-in-singapore/ ...The "NL health minister" claimed "he only was health minister between other jobs"...Do "politicians" even understand what job they do ? 

Representing voters is a very serious responsibility...present "politicians" only represent themselves...outsource most of their jobs to "others" so lobby-groups-going for company profits- manage to make the law...

Wich bring me back to the start of part 1-today...The "west" going for "to complex models"  that do not do the job they are supposed to do...

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I am "old"...once a phone simply was a phone...An alternative was writing a letter...Communication may have been simple but it did what it had to do...

Today A.I. may result in that you do not have an idea on "who/what is on the other side" in communication...Humans "outsourcing themselves" in a manner one may ask why there still are humans...

A bit the story of tourists making photo's all the time so later they can see what they should be seeing at the time they were there...

"What are we fighting for"...even destroying the globe..."a right for international travel" to sit in an all inclusive hotel a few thousend kilometer from home while you do not know your own area ? Is the "goal of live" the newst smart phone/car/ whatever ? Do we have any idea of "what we want from live and why"????

Or are we "naked apes" trying to impress other "apes" -to stay the Alpha #1 ? Have we gone crazy ???

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[url]https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/cia-built-12-secret-spy-bases-ukraine-waged-shadow-war-last-decade-bombshell-nyt[/url] or https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/cia-built-12-secret-spy-bases-ukraine-waged-shadow-war-last-decade-bombshell-nyt ;

On Sunday The New York Times published an explosive and very belated full admission that US intelligence has not only been instrumental in Ukraine wartime decision-making, but has established and financed high tech command-and-control spy centers, and was doing so long prior to the Feb. 24 Russian invasion of two years ago.

Among the biggest revelations is that the program was established a decade ago and spans three different American presidents. The Times says the CIA program to modernize Ukraine's intelligence services has "transformed" the former Soviet state and its capabilities into "Washington’s most important intelligence partners against the Kremlin today."

This has included the agency having secretly trained and equipped Ukrainian intelligence officers spanning back to just after the 2014 Maidan coup events, as well constructing a network of 12 secret bases along the Russian borderwork which began eight years ago. These intelligence bases, from which Russian commanders' communications can be swept up and Russian spy satellites monitored, are being used launch and track cross-border drone and missile attacks on Russian territory

DJ, The US would not accept a Russian network of bases in Mexico-with "activities" inside the US...Somehow for the US itself doing something like this inside Russia for "the west" was and is OK..."not a provocation"...Mass murder on ethnic Russians in Ukraine-killing thousends of them by "extreme nationalists" ..."no problem"....

Even in recent days HIMARS was used against civilian targets in Donetsk-to kill Russian civilians out of hate....

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[url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCplShHs0N0[/url] or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCplShHs0N0 Hindustan Times/India;

'Gaza Situation Bad, Don't Attack Hamas...': USA Warns Israel 

United States' Biden Administration has warned Israel against attacks on Hamas-run police force in besieged Gaza city, saying the security situation in the war-torn Palestinian territory is deteriorating due to attacks by armed gangs on aid trucks and that the policemen guarding the aid convoys should be spared, Axios reported. 

DJ, In Paris-France the US and Israel talked with Qatar about a "pause" and exchange of prisoners...No doubt US is feeling growing international pressure to stop its "israel" puppet in its crimes...

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DJ-The "BIG" picture-my view is NATO-BRICS+ conflict;

-BRICS+ has 6 members in (Eur)Asia...Russia-India-China, Iran, Saudi Arabia, UAE...lots of potential members in Asia (Kazachstan, Vietnam, Thailand, Indonesia a.o.) so "to stop BRICS+" the US-led "west" has to push for wars and chaos in all of Asia...

-The (Kashmir) borderregion Pakistan-India-China may be "high risk"

-Baluchistan -Iran/Pakistan/Afghanistan also did see "western support" for "moderate murderers"

-Of course breaking up larger countries into smaller ones may be "the plan" for most Asian countries...

The "west" did kill tens-of-millions of Muslims but "is protecting"Uyghur Chinese Muslims"...realy ? 

The [url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_subjects_of_Russia#Types[/url] or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_subjects_of_Russia#Types is a federation...so "it can be broken up"...Also [url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provinces_of_China[/url] or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provinces_of_China can be broken up...In history China often was not one country...The same goes for India, Iran even one could claim for Saudi Arabia...

-A US/western goal may to disrupt ALL trade not made in US$....US "rules based order" already is used to hinder Iran tankers, hinder supplies getting into Syria...The west did "freeze" money/gold in western banks a.o. from Venezuela, Afghanistan...is even thinking to use the billions of Russia to "fund" Ukraine...

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What "the west" is missing;

-By its attacks on BRICS it is not only destroying BRICS but also the world...For now western attacks only resulted in BRICS getting stronger...however the "west" can do a lot of "dirty work" to provoke wars in Asia, Africa, Latin America...

-In the past most dictators in the world were supported by the west...Working in the interest of a neo-colonial west. Western mining able to get energy, gold etc. at very low prices from those countries...keeping those countries poor and the 0,1% global elite rich...

-"To show strength" the "west" may invade smaller countries/regions (Like the US invasion of Grenada, Panama etc)

The basic problem remains uni-polar confrontation politics...The "US has the duty to rule the world" because it is "exceptional" ..."the best country ever"...a pseudo religious fanatism - somehow "European leaders" not only follow but even support...even when it is bad for Europe...

DJ-I doubt biden is "the main problem"....trump may try to make a deal with Russia only to start conflicts with Iran and China...support bolsenaro in Brasil...

BRICS+ may try to find openings in "the west"...Serbia, Belarus joining BRICS+ maybe could change the picture...

[url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nX38WJfKQA[/url] or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nX38WJfKQA MS;

Kharkiv Evacuation | Poland Blocks Borders | Iskander Strikes. MilitarySummary 2024.2.25

DJ, MS warning for "Polish-Ukraine tensions"...Polish farmers attacking trains with Ukraine grain/busses with Ukrainians...Ukraine forces move into Poland..."So Poland is attacked by Ukraine...NATO has to move in"....

DJ-In a lot of western countries public support for wars is decreasing...so "western leaders" face increasing public pressure...Russia is now in a major offensive...with a power struggle in Kiev....So "NATO has to act soon" within a few months...or both public support and the war in Ukraine are "over"...

Maybe as a reminder; World War One ended when the German homefront no longer supported the war...The military (both German and western) had "no problem" with more war...The bloodbath could have continued for even a few more years...without ANY purpose...

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February registered a 50% reduction of humanitarian aid entering #Gaza compared to January. 

Aid was supposed to increase not decrease to address the huge needs of 2 million Palestinians in desperate living conditions. 

Among the obstacles: lack of political will, regular closing of the crossing points & lack of security due to military operations + collapse of civil order. 

Cease fire + lifting the siege to allow meaningful lifesaving aid + commercial supplies are long overdue.

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🚨BREAKING: STARVED TO DEATH. 17-year-old Ilham Joha, who has cerebral palsy, died today in Gaza due to lack of necessary food and medicine as starvation worsens in the northern Gaza Strip.

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A 25-yr old sets himself on fire in protest of the massacres in Gaza and to support Palestinians at a time of genocide and the Press presents it as a mere suicide, forgetting to mention Gaza, Palestinians, Israel. Goebbels would be proud of the Western Press and Orwell horrified

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Today, is the deadline for Israel’s report on „all measures taken to give effect“ to the ’s provisional measures (PM) order in the case concerning the Application of the Genocide Convention (GC) in the Gaza Strip (#SoutAfrica v. #Israel). 

At first sight, Israel does not seem to have complied with at least one of the four PMs indicated 

- Prevent commission of acts within the scope of Article II GC, including by its military ❓ 

- Prevent and punish public incitement to commit genocide ❓ 

- Enable provision of basic services and humanitarian assistance ❌ 

- Destruction and preservation of evidence ❓ 

One should not expect much from the  in response though. This is the third case in which the Court ordered the submission of a report on PMs. Myanmar has been regularly reporting since May 2020 without the Court taking any formal steps in response to the reports. Any decision on compliance with the PM order is usually reserved for the decision on the merits, which may be years off. 

In the present case, considering the humanitarian catastrophe, the Court should act immediately.

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The last time food was delivered into Northern Gaza was Jan 23. Read that again. Israel is starving Gaza.

DJ, as always good info from [url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgeW9v3yl1k[/url] or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgeW9v3yl1k Judge Napolitano;

Alastair Crooke: Can US Cap Middle East Violence?

My view; If the west/US keeps sending weapons to their "israel-proxy" even when they know "israel" ;

-is now starving Palestinians by the dozens per day in Gaza

-zionist-fascists (they even call themself fascist...)  push for a "greater israel"

-the supplies send by the west will be used for mass murder

That west itself is "partner in crime" ; partner in genocide...

NATO since 1991 killed millions of Muslims...in Iraq, Afghanistan, Yemen, Libya, Syria, Lebanon, Iran, Yugoslavia...."israel" only continuing a western genocide on Islam...

Alastair Crooke also mentioned "israeli" plans to close of the Al Aqsa-Mosque during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan is like closing the Vatican at Easter...DJ-It is a provocation...zionist extremists do NOT want any kind of peace...These extremist (ben gvir etc.)  are destroying "israel" out of hatred...And the "west" is helping that as "self defense"...

[url]https://www.moonofalabama.org/2024/02/aaron-burned-himself-to-make-us-look-at-gaza.html[/url] or https://www.moonofalabama.org/2024/02/aaron-burned-himself-to-make-us-look-at-gaza.html 

Rest in peace, Aaron Bushnell. Rest. In. Peace.

and;

Aaron Bushnell Burned Himself Alive To Make You Turn Your Eyes To Gaza I watched the uncensored video of US airman Aaron Bushnell self-immolating in front of the Israeli embassy in Washington while screaming “Free Palestine”. 

I hesitated to watch it because I knew once I put it into my mind it’s there for the rest of my life, but I figured I owe him that much. 

I feel like I’ve been picked up and shaken, which I suppose was pretty much what Bushnell was going for. 

Something to shake the world awake to the reality of what’s happening. 

Something to snap us out of the brainwashed and distracted stupor of western dystopia and turn our gaze to Gaza. 

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Bushnell was taken to the hospital, where independent reporter Talia Jane reports that he has died. 


It was about as horrific a death as a human being can experience, and it was designed to be. Shortly before his final act in this world, Bushnell posted the following message on Facebook: 

“Many of us like to ask ourselves, ‘What would I do if I was alive during slavery? Or the Jim Crow South? Or apartheid? What would I do if my country was committing genocide?’ “The answer is, you’re doing it. Right now.” 

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NEW - Several NATO and EU members are "considering sending troops to Ukraine" on a "bilateral basis."

link; [url]https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1762157842612515149/photo/1[/url] or https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1762157842612515149/photo/1 

[url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uj7O7a3ewcg[/url] or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uj7O7a3ewcg Judge Napolitano;

Ray McGovern: (SPECIAL) - How CIA Helps Ukraine Military

DJ, Intel in NATO (proxy) countries = CIA...so [url]https://nltimes.nl/2024/01/31/un-court-clears-russia-financing-terror-ukraine-led-flight-mh17-downing[/url] or https://nltimes.nl/2024/01/31/un-court-clears-russia-financing-terror-ukraine-led-flight-mh17-downing ;

WEDNESDAY, 31 JANUARY 2024 - 16:41

UN Court clears Russia of financing terror in Ukraine, which led to Flight MH17 downing

After seven years, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague has ruled in Russia's favour over the downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17. The case was brought by Ukraine, who alleged that Russia violated an anti-terrorism treaty by supporting separatists in eastern Ukraine with military aid and financing.

In its verdict, the ICJ ruled that Ukraine did not prove that Russia knew its financing would be used for the purposes of terrorism, even if its weaponry was used to shoot down the aircraft, killing innocent civilians. Russia will not have to pay damages in the case.

Again...the CIA created the "Russia did it" propaganda PR....

If you are a soldier sacrificing yourself to protect US interest, you are a rational, noble hero. But if you sacrifice yourself to protest the genocide your country is funding, you are mentally ill. If you are a Arab man auto-cremating to protest your government, you are romanticized in American newspapers. If you are an American doing the same, your news is buried or obfuscated.   There are no truths in the US. Only narratives that serve the ruling class.

Is the "west" "democratic" or is it all a show ? 

Maybe this info can prevent crimes ? 

[url]https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/why-soldiers-get-a-kick-out-of-killing/[/url] or https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/why-soldiers-get-a-kick-out-of-killing/ ;

Do some soldiers enjoy killing? If so, why? This question is thrust upon us by the recently released video of U.S. Apache helicopter pilots shooting a Reuters cameraman and his driver in Baghdad in 2007. Mistaking the camera of the Reuters reporter for a weapon, the pilots machine-gunned the reporter and driver and other nearby people.

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The exchange reminds me of a Times story from March 2003, during the U.S. invasion of Baghdad. The reporter quotes Sgt. Eric Schrumpf, a Marine sharpshooter, saying, "We had a great day. We killed a lot of people." Noting that his troop killed an Iraqi woman standing near a militant, Schrumpf adds, "I'm sorry, but the chick was in the way."

Does the apparent satisfaction—call it the Schrumpf effect—that some soldiers take in killing stem primarily from nature or nurture? Nature, claims Richard Wrangham, an anthropologist at Harvard University and an authority on chimpanzees. Wrangham asserts that natural selection embedded in both male humans and chimpanzees—our closest genetic relatives—an innate propensity for "intergroup coalitionary killing" [pdf], in which members of one group attack members of a rival group. Male humans "enjoy the opportunity" to kill others, Wrangham says, especially if they run little risk of being killed themselves.


Several years ago, geneticists at Victoria University in New Zealand linked violent male aggression to a variant of a gene that encodes for the enzyme monoamine oxidase A, which regulates the function of neurotransmitters such as dopamine and serotonin. According to the researchers, the so-called "warrior gene" is carried by 56 percent of Maori men, who are renowned for being "fearless warriors," and only 34 percent of Caucasian males.

But studies of World War II veterans suggest that very few men are innately bellicose. The psychiatrists Roy Swank and Walter Marchand found that 98 percent of soldiers who endured 60 days of continuous combat suffered psychiatric symptoms, either temporary or permanent. The two out of 100 soldiers who seemed unscathed by prolonged combat displayed "aggressive psychopathic personalities," the psychiatrists reported. In other words, combat didn't drive these men crazy because they were crazy to begin with.


Surveys of WWII infantrymen carried out by U.S. Army Brig. Gen. S.L.A. Marshall found that only 15 to 20 percent had fired their weapons in combat, even when ordered to do so. Marshall concluded that most soldiers avoid firing at the enemy because they fear killing as well as being killed. "The average and healthy individual," Marshall contended in his postwar book Men Against Fire, "has such an inner and usually unrealized resistance towards killing a fellow man that he will not of his own volition take life if it is possible to turn away from that responsibility…At the vital point he becomes a conscientious objector."


Critics have challenged Marshall's claims, but the U.S. military took them so seriously that it revamped its training to boost firing rates in subsequent wars, according to Dave Grossman, a former U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel and professor of psychology at West Point. In his 1995 book On Killing, Grossman argues that Marshall's results have been corroborated by reports from World War I, the American Civil War, the Napoleonic wars and other conflicts. "The singular lack of enthusiasm for killing one's fellow man has existed throughout military history," Grossman asserts.


The reluctance of ordinary men to kill can be overcome by intensified training, direct commands from officers, long-range weapons and propaganda that glorifies the soldier's cause and dehumanizes the enemy. "With the proper conditioning and the proper circumstances, it appears that almost anyone can and will kill," Grossman writes. Many soldiers who kill enemies in battle are initially exhilarated, Grossman says, but later they often feel profound revulsion and remorse, which may transmute into post-traumatic stress disorder and other ailments. Indeed, Grossman believes that the troubles experienced by many combat veterans are evidence of a "powerful, innate human resistance toward killing one's own species."


In other words, the Schrumpf effect is usually a product less of nature than of nurture—although "nurture" is an odd term for training that turns ordinary young men into enthusiastic killers.

DJ...[url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Rule[/url] or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Rule ;

The Golden Rule is the principle of treating others as one would want to be treated by them. It is sometimes called an ethics of reciprocity, meaning that you should reciprocate to others how you would like them to treat you (not necessarily how they actually treat you).

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Ancient Egypt[edit]

Possibly the earliest affirmation of the maxim of reciprocity, reflecting the ancient Egyptian goddess Ma'at, appears in the story of "The Eloquent Peasant", which dates to the Middle Kingdom (c. 2040–1650 BCE): "Now this is the command: Do to the doer to make him do."[4][5] This proverb embodies the do ut des principle.[6]Late Period (c. 664–323 BCE) papyrus contains an early negative affirmation of the Golden Rule: "That which you hate to be done to you, do not do to another."[7]

is thousends of years old...

One has to live all of live with one self...Do not ruin your relation with yourself...

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I have for a long time said that I thought that NATO troops would eventually openly enter Ukraine. Many did not agree. But we are now on the very edge of that. If it happens, it may well be the beginning of the next great European war. It is not in the Russian character to... 1/

[url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dv1J1n1SiZI[/url] or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dv1J1n1SiZI MS;

WonderWeapon Destroyed | Russia Capture Two Villages | NATO Sends Forces To Ukraine

DJ,MS is "not correct" in the sense that NATO-members-on basis of deals made with zelensky-as a country-may send forces into Ukraine...(from minute 18 MS explains some of the more general news on Ukraine)...

MS idea is most western forces would stay in the west of Ukraine-so Ukraine could send Ukraine forces to the frontlines...

DJ-My view; The Ukraine army also need "specialists" able to use western weapons to "the best"...Russia did destroy a(nother) US made ABRAMS-tank 

[url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M1_Abrams[/url] or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M1_Abrams ;

Unit costM1A1: $4.3 million (domestic cost, FY1989) (~$10.66 million, FY2023)[3]
M1A2 SEP v3: $24 million (export cost, FY2022)[4]

...MS did mention before of "plans" being made to "involve more western countries"....One (older) idea was Poland moving into the west of Ukraine...

Very likely "western volunteer specialists" are already involved in more high tech weapons like HIMARS, (sea)drones etc. but NATO members now openly fighting Russia is another "sick low"....

🚨The New York Times disclosed yesterday that the CIA built "12 Secret Spy Bases" in Ukraine, waging a shadow war against Russia for the past decade. 

After a U.S.-supported violent coup toppled Ukraine's democratically elected government, CIA Director John Brennan visited Kyiv in April 2014. Shortly after, the new Ukrainian government launched an "anti-terror operation" against its Russian-speaking citizens in Eastern Ukraine. 

For eight years leading up to Russia's invasion in 2022, Ukraine's government, with help from the CIA, relentlessly bombed Eastern Ukraine. Millions of innocent civilians were caught in the crossfire of a geopolitical chess match between Russia and the United States. 

This is part of the story often ignored by the Western press.

DJ, related [url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Biden#Vice_presidency_(2009%E2%80%932017)[/url] or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Biden#Vice_presidency_(2009%E2%80%932017) ;

Biden said he intended to eliminate some explicit roles assumed by George W. Bush's vice president, Dick Cheney, and did not intend to emulate any previous vice presidency.[208] He was sworn in as the 47th vice president of the United States on January 20, 2009.[209] He was the first vice president from Delaware[210] and the first Roman Catholic vice president.[211][212]

DJ, biden wanted a war with Russia/Putin...

[url]https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/bulletin-ukraine-claims-under-attack-by-drones-launched-from-transnistria[/url] or https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/bulletin-ukraine-claims-under-attack-by-drones-launched-from-transnistria ;

FLASH TRAFFIC.  URGENT.  Ukraine is claiming that several Regions of Western Ukraine (Galicia) are reportedly under Attack from Russian Loitering Munition/“Suicide” Drones were launched by the Armed Forces of Transnistria.

Transnistria is a self-declared independent enclave of Russians in eastern Moldova.  This week, they plan on asking Moscow to ANNEX Transnistria and protect them.

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NO SLEEP TIL TRANSNISTRIA!! Video of a place most of you have probably never heard of.....

DJ, Transnistria comes up in "news" from time to time...IF !!!! Moldova and/or Ukraine would attack this small buffer area between these two countries it would give Russia an excuse to move into south-western Ukraine-Odessa region...There may be lots of (very old-soviet era ???) weapons in Transnistria Ukraine would like to have...

IF Ukraine attacks Transnistria it may be coordinated with NATO(members - Romania ?) to get NATO even more involved...

DJ-The basics; 

-Russia for now still "acting" as if they are fighting Ukraine

-NATO is getting more and more involved...soon may be openly fighting Russia

-F16's flying from Romania, Poland etc to attack Russian forces (in Ukraine or Russia) may "pull the trigger"...

-Black Sea operations may already be done by NATO-just put an Ukraine flag on it and it is an "Ukraine victory"...

DJ-I was hoping western countries-or people-would come to their senses...Only 20% of Ukrainians wanted Ukraine inside NATO still even "left wing" parties promote war...The "open door"...even "the Moon can join NATO" ....

Even all out involvement of NATO -at this moment- will NOT change the outcome of this NATO expansion war...Russia will NOT accept NATO this close to its borders....

The US would not accept Russian, Iran, Chineses ballistic missiles in Cuba, Mexico....

The "west" is destroying its economy...has "limited military means"...still western "leaders" keep pushing for more war...

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When I look at China's reaction on Gaza China may have decided it may need to play a more "active" role...Iran is already involved in the Ukraine war -not only with drones but also via fighters...Because of the western ongoing support for the Gaza-genocide "the rest" now also start realizing the genocide that is happening in Ukraine-by Ukraine nazi's- to kill Russians...

You can not "support Gaza" but think "Ukraine is the good guy"....My view-both Palestine and Ukraine are frontlines in an escalating NATO (10% population) -BRICS+ (90%) rest of the world confrontation...

NATO defending neo-colonial "white mens rule" keeping the rest poor...

DJ- I am NOT neutral...I am against war...In "western media" being for peace you "are supporting both Putin and terrorism"....maybe that tells something of the total dereailment of "western media"...

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🇵🇸🇺🇸 Hamas issued a statement about the death of the Aaron Bushnell, US army serviceman who set himself on fire in front of the Israeli embassy in Washington to protest the war crimes committed by the US and Israel in Gaza: 

In the name of God, the most gracious, the most merciful Press Statement We in the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) express our deepest condolences and our full solidarity with the family and friends of the American pilot Aaron Bushnell, whose name has been immortalized as a defender of human values and the oppression of the Palestinian people who are suffering because of the American administration and its unjust policies, as well as the American activist Rachel Corrie, who was crushed by a Zionist bulldozer in Rafah in In 2003, it is the same city that Bushnell paid with his life for putting pressure on his country’s government to prevent the criminal Zionist army from attacking it and committing massacres and violations there. 

The administration of US President Biden bears full responsibility for the death of US Army pilot Aaron Bushnell due to its policy that supported the Nazi Zionist entity in its war of extermination against our Palestinian people, as he gave his life in order to shed light on the Zionist massacres and ethnic cleansing against our people in the Gaza Strip. 

The heroic pilot, Aaron Bushnell, will remain immortal in the memory of our Palestinian people and the free people of the world, and a symbol of the spirit of global human solidarity with our people and their just cause. 

The tragic accident that cost Pilot Bushnell his life is an expression of the growing state of anger among the American people who reject their country’s policy that contributes to the killing and extermination of our people, and who reject their government’s violation of universal human values, by providing cover to ensure the impunity of the entity and its Nazi leaders from punishment and accountability. 

Islamic Resistance Movement - Hamas Monday: 16 Shaaban 1445 AH Corresponding to: February 26, 2024

[url]https://twitter.com/DD_Geopolitics/status/1762228584079614444[/url] or https://twitter.com/DD_Geopolitics/status/1762228584079614444 

DJ, During the nazi-occupation of Europe those fighting nazi-terror were called terrorists by the nazi-criminals...

NATO has been supporting genocide all over this planet since its start...defending neo-colonialism in the interest of the 0,1%...

You can NOT have a REAL democracy "at home" supporting dictators, terror in lots of other countries...

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[url]https://www.france24.com/en/video/20240227-european-leaders-rule-out-sending-troops-to-ukraine-after-macron-comments[/url] or https://www.france24.com/en/video/20240227-european-leaders-rule-out-sending-troops-to-ukraine-after-macron-comments ;

Germany, Britain and other European countries said on Tuesday they had no plans to send ground troops to Ukraine, after French President Emmanuel Macron suggested that Western allies should exclude no options in seeking to avert a Russian victory.

and [url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvQPsZxQWAo[/url] or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvQPsZxQWAo Firstpost-India;

Ukraine Floats Possibility of Inviting Russia to Peace Summit | Vantage with Palki Sharma

Ukraine Floats Possibility of Inviting Russia to Peace Summit | Vantage with Palki Sharma Ukraine and its foreign partners could invite Russia to a future peace summit to discuss an end to Moscow's two-year-old invasion on Kyiv's terms, according to reports. But will Moscow accept this peace plan? Palki Sharma tells you. 

DJ...some politicians have "such a big mouth it hardly fits in their face".....[url]https://www.france24.com/en/video/20240227-did-macron-jump-the-gun-with-ukraine-troops-comments[/url] or https://www.france24.com/en/video/20240227-did-macron-jump-the-gun-with-ukraine-troops-comments ;

Germany, Britain and other European countries as well as Nato said on Tuesday they had no plans to send ground troops to Ukraine, after French President Emmanuel Macron suggested that Western allies should exclude no options in seeking to avert a Russian victory. France 24's international affairs editor Philip Turle takes a look at the reaction.

DJ...maybe a practical point...to send money one can create extra debt/fiat currency...It may be "hard to print soldiers"....

[url]https://tass.com/politics/1752321[/url] or https://tass.com/politics/1752321 ;

MOSCOW, February 27. /TASS/. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has called not to attach too much significance to EU conferences on Ukraine in Paris.

"The number of Western conferences is obviously growing. They are trying to offset the decreasing interest and dramatic drop in financial capabilities to maintain the Zelensky regime. The French and President [of France Emmanuel] Macron are overly enthusiastic about convening all sorts of events, caring little about their potential outcome. I would not attach too much significance to the conferences organized in Paris," he told a news conference, commenting on a European conference on Ukraine that was held in Paris on February 26.

Thus, he recalled that such events have never yielded any concrete results. As an example, he cited the Climate Change Conference in Paris in 2015, when Western countries promised to allocate some 100 billion US dollars a year to developing countries to ensure their energy transition within ten years. 

However, according to Lavrov, not more than 20 or 30 billion US dollars have been allocated for these purposes since then, while the sums going to Kiev are much bigger.

Macron said after a meeting in the Elysee Palace on February 26 that the participants had looked at sending ground troops to Ukraine. Although no consensus was reached on this topic, he did not rule out such a scenario in the future. 


The Paris conference on Ukraine was attended by German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, Polish President Andrzej Duda and prime ministers from around 20 EU countries. The United States was represented by US Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs James O'Brien, and David Cameron represented the United Kingdom.

DJ...words are "easy" and with present western "leaders" often empty...

So -yes- NATO may seek further escalation...only it may have very limited means for escalation...The 90,000 NATO forces now in excersises in a.o. Poland could see over half a million extra Russian soldiers near Ukraine...

A western "action" in West Ukraine may result in Belarus getting involved...maybe spreading the -already unpopular- war to Poland, Baltics...for what ? 

For extra billions for the US war industry and its shareholders/donors ? So they can buy even more western "politicians" to promote "the need for" more war...

Even jens stoltenberg NATO "head" admiited the Ukraine war was a NATO expansion war...The extra 61 billion "US aid" mostly would end up in US pockets...

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By now it should be clear there is a crisis in Kiev...a lot of Ukrainians NEVER !!!! wanted this war !!!!

Ukraine did see over 400,000 soldiers killed (Russia maybe around 80,000...also 20,000 Ukraine civilians got killed [url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFO_LsStmuA[/url] or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFO_LsStmuA

Scott Ritter: Explaining Ukraine’s Military Failures

DJ, on the Russian side Putin has a support rate of 80% !!!! Most of the world does see NATO as the problem NOT Russia !!!

Again..the west is getting isolated...NOT Russia....

On top of the over two years of the Ukraine war NATO is also involved in the genocide in Palestine....the Gaza mass murder may have made most of the world waken up to "what the west has to offer" in defense of the US$ " rules based chaos"....

Western media, politics did forget the Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan wars....the NATO mass murders "fighting terror" while also sponsoring IS, alquaida etc...

YES Syria, Iran, even Russia, China may be far from perfect...but with 1-in-4 prisoners-worldwide- in US prisons one can hardly claim the US model still represents an "American dream"...the 40,000+ killed in US street violence may show more signs of a US civil war....

The west needs to rethink its position....


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DJ, Lots of comments on France/macron calling for western/European soldiers getting (more) involved in Ukraine...

[url]https://www.moonofalabama.org/2024/02/france-wants-to-fight-in-ukraine.html[/url] or https://www.moonofalabama.org/2024/02/france-wants-to-fight-in-ukraine.html in the story and comments some "suggestions" on why macron now wants to fight Russia...

-Dozens of French military volunteers "doing humanitarian work" got killed this year in Ukraine (Charkov 60+, Kherson military high tech "volunteers" at least 2...very likely also higher ranks did get killed). 

-Some comments linked Russia taking over French "exploitation" (a.o. in Niger, French mining companies mining gold and uranium to be shipped to France...Niger stayed poor..) in Africa...

-Only 17% of the French voters think macron is doing a decent job...farmers protests, other unrest...

[url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtkS5bRC8_I[/url] or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtkS5bRC8_I The Duran;

Macron is freaking out over Ukraine collapse

DJ also mentioned "eurobonds"...the EU did invest billions into this crazy war...

[url]https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/moscow-reacts-macron-raising-plan-european-boots-ground-ukraine[/url] or https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/moscow-reacts-macron-raising-plan-european-boots-ground-ukraine ;

Referencing an infamous French SS division from WW2, Zakharova further quipped: "Emmanuel, have you decided to form a Charlemagne deux (two) division to defend [Ukrainian President Vladimir] Zelensky’s bunker?"

But Moscow also warned of major direct conflict with the West. According to more from the Kremlin response: "The very fact of discussing the possibility of sending certain contingents to Ukraine from Nato countries is a very important new element…in that case, we would need to talk not about the probability, but about the inevitability (of a direct conflict)."

DJ...the last ss-division fighting in Berlin may 1945 was the "french" charlemagne (Charles the great) division...(no doubt a lot of these french ss-ers did fight further in Algeria, SE Asia/IndoChina colonial wars...A lot of dutch ss-ers ended up fighting the Indonesians 1945-49 then send to the Korea war 1950-53...I believe already in the 50's a Dutch army group came under NATO command of a german general who had fought for the wehrmacht...hitler army...Again...nazi-nato links are there to see...). 

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[url]https://english.alarabiya.net/News/gulf/2024/02/27/Ukraine-s-Zelenskyy-says-he-has-landed-in-Saudi-Arabia-for-talks-with-MBS[/url] or https://english.alarabiya.net/News/gulf/2024/02/27/Ukraine-s-Zelenskyy-says-he-has-landed-in-Saudi-Arabia-for-talks-with-MBS ;

Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman on Tuesday during a trip to Riyadh that he said would touch on peace prospects, the exchange of prisoners of war (POW), and the Kingdom’s potential participation in reconstruction efforts.

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On Monday, MBS met with the speaker of the State Duma to “review the close relations between the Kingdom and Russia along with the prospects of parliamentary cooperation.”

DJ, also India sources claim zelensky may try to find a way out of the war (and survive...) The "official" western backed "peace plan" more or less demands Russia to surrender...No serious person can take such insanity as any basis for talks...MBS has shown to be VERY serious...he will not waste time...he does not need zelensky...

Saudi Arabia is a new BRICS+ member...the Asian economy is by far the largest economy in the world...Europe can be seen as an Asian peninsula...Ukraine can be usefull...

DJ-Macron/EU in panic may mean the US is taking its hands of Ukraine and zelensky may be going for a deal with Russia...From that perspective sending in European military may be meant -again (like bojo after Turkish deal april 2022) the west/EU this time trying to keep the war going...to get a better deal for European companies with interests in Ukraine natural resources ? (Coal, lithium..)

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DJ-the following link shows very cruel pictures/drawings WARNING !!!!! [url]https://justice4poland.com/2016/09/30/unthinkable-atrocities-of-banderites-which-the-polish-will-never-forget-18/comment-page-1/[/url] or https://justice4poland.com/2016/09/30/unthinkable-atrocities-of-banderites-which-the-polish-will-never-forget-18/comment-page-1/ 

Ukraine nazi's slaughtering Polish people...[url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katyn_massacre[/url] or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katyn_massacre is linked -by some historians- as part of the Ukraine-Polish conflict. With Ukrainians working in/for the Soviet Union killing over 22,000 Polish (eventough some of the killed themself were seen as Ukrainian...). 

After the end of World War 1 chaos spread in Eastern Europe with both Poles, Ukrainians (but also the Baltic states, Finland)  fighting for their own country...It was not only a civil war but also a very bloody war between Poles and Ukrainian nationalists...[url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish%E2%80%93Ukrainian_War[/url] or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish%E2%80%93Ukrainian_War 

See also [url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poland%E2%80%93Ukraine_relations[/url] or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poland%E2%80%93Ukraine_relations for the "love-hate" relationship. Both nations in between German/Austria-Hungarian and Russian blocks...But catholic Poles and orthodox Ukrainians already had a religious "problem"...

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[url]https://english.alarabiya.net/News/middle-east/2024/02/27/Gaza-war-will-help-Israeli-economy-by-boosting-military-technology-sales-Minister[/url] or https://english.alarabiya.net/News/middle-east/2024/02/27/Gaza-war-will-help-Israeli-economy-by-boosting-military-technology-sales-Minister ;

Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza will help Israel’s economy rebound after the war, partly because its fresh experience of warfare is set to boost military technology sales, its economy minister said on Tuesday.

Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of a World Trade Organization Ministerial Conference in Abu Dhabi, Israel’s Economy and Industry Minister Nir Barkat said the war’s domestic impact on Israel was “not something Israel cannot bear mid to long term.”

He estimated the total cost at 150-200 billion shekels, or roughly $50 billion, regardless of the war’s duration.

DJ, since netanyahu is blocking a two-state solution BRICS may go for Palestine...remarkable an "israel minister" at an UAE/Abu Dhabi conference...








An hour ago, the Egyptian forces carried out an airdrop of aid north of the Nuseirat camp, specifically the Al-Zahraa area. The Zionist occupation burned it with phosphorus bombs.

DJ, A total boycot of "israel" may bring the zionist-extremists to their senses...



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[url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTB8qEpxIrc[/url] or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTB8qEpxIrc Alexander Mercouris/AM

Panic Sweeps EU, Rus Advances, Ukr Troops Flee; Macron Urgent Talks, Wants EU Troops to Ukr; EU No

DJ, I totally DISagree with AM idea the battle front is deciding the outcome of the Ukraine-war...A few remarks;

-biden...if he wants any kind of chance for reelection needs to "finish" the wars in Ukraine and Palestine fast...

-biden and his "cult" may also believe they will get "a better deal" than a trump government will make

-Very likely biden-cult may be in indirect talks (via Saudi Arabia ???) to make a deal with Russia...zelensky only can accept...

-AM may be right on the "blame game" between the CIA and DoD/Pentagon...Ukraine is yet another US made military disaster...(and of course it never can be a politicians fault)..

-On top of the "Ukraine situation" Russia is kicking the US out of the Middle East, Russia also kicking out France from "Africa"...

-zelensky most likely knows the only real option is to "end the war" at the best available terms...Trying to "limit western interference" because the west is only interested in western interests...NOT in Ukraine interests...

DJ...BRICS+ may be growing its sphere of influence. China made an Iran and Saudi Arabia/UAE-deal...

One possibly new member for BRICS may be Algeria...west of Libya...Egypt-east of Libya already in BRICS..both may get China-Russian-Saudi help to "find a solution" for Libya...Nigeria may also be on a BRICS new member list..increasing BRICS influence both in Africa and energy...

-Could Ukraine "join BRICS+" ???? Maybe as a part of a larger agenda with a deal between BRICS and the EU...

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Nuclear war risks...

-"israel" not very likely to use nuclear weapons against Hezbollah in southern Lebanon...it would also bring a lot of damage to "israel"...

-DJ-A nuclear attack on Iran may be something netanyahu could think of...maybe trying to create a nuclear explosion in a nuclear facility inside Iran...so "the world" would think Iran did cause the "nuclear incident" itself...

-zelensky (etc) may have had ideas of attacking nuclear installations in Russia or in Ukraine under Russian control...(or maybe even cause a nuclear incident inside an Ukraine nuclear plant and blame Russia for it...). In this-final-stage zelensky may try to stay alive...Maybe the best chance for survival may be as a Russian puppet by now...

-NATO troops moving into Ukraine "would be very unwelcome"...however it would NOT need a Russian nuclear reaction...It would "blow up" NATO/EU...

DJ-Integrated warfare would make western weapons much more effective than they are now in Ukraine hands...Coordinated infantery-tank-artillery-air force operations could put Russia in a crisis...However very likely such a western attack would bring in Russian allies...could see "unforseen" consequences all over the planet (A new Korean war ?)

[url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnxJ74i7sLY[/url] or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnxJ74i7sLY MS;

The Russians Captured Makiivka And Entered Orlivka. Military Summary And Analysis For 2024.02.28

and [url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIgtQzjQS9U[/url] or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIgtQzjQS9U Weeb Union/WU

Russian Air Supremacy Allows For Significant Russian Advances Along The Frontline Villages

DJ...there has been so far very limited news of Ukraine fighters fighting on the Russian side (The Donetsk and Luhansk "peoples republics" see themselves as Russian). But this could soon change...One of the things zelensky may try to avoid is the Ukraine military turning against him and his "club"...Ukraine soldiers did make threats of "going for Kiev" if they would not be released/get more supplies...

Again...Ukrainians voted for zelensky because he promissed making a peacedeal with Russia. zelensky may not be able to avoid presidential elections much longer...so "if he can make a peace deal" he may still hope to "survive"...

Will we soon see western helicopters evacuating "westerners" from embassies in Kiev...Ukrainians welcoming incoming Ukraine forces ending western "exploitation"...a Saigon-1975 scenario ?  It was NOT Ukraine that pushed for this war !!! Only 20% of Ukrainians wanted to join NATO !!!

It was biden punishing Putin for the trum-presidency...total insanity...Russio-phobia...underestimating the Russian reaction when NATO crossed the red line by going for Ukraine joining NATO and western support for a major Ukraine attack on Russians in eastern Ukraine (planned for february 2022...the Russian S.M.O. stopped that...). 

The outcome of this crazy confrontation politics is the west being much weaker than it was a few years ago...

"israel" now getting western weapons and Ukraine corruption-so money for defenselines was "gone" did speed up the Ukraine collapse now unfolding..

Very likely netanyahu may notice what "western support" brings...it may stop further "israel" agression...Even the US has its limits in what it can do for its proxy state...Maybe netanyahu also has contacted China to see what kind of diplomatic way out there may be ? Western diplomacy failure has sidelined the west...

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My own speculations on peace-initiatives;

-Ukraine; make peace with Russia NOW-western Ukraine will remain part of Ukraine-Russia will take Charkov and Odessa anyway...The alternative for zelensky may be Poland, Hungary, Romania also taking western Ukraine...

-Palestine; If the "israelis" attack Rafah/Lebanon it may be the end of "israel"...BRICS+/Russia are in a position to guarantee "israel safety"...the "west" only has a limited offer for help..

The Transnistrian authorities will today appeal to Russia to take measures to protect Transnistria "in the context of growing pressure from Moldova."

DJ, western media make macrons story of western boots moving into Ukraine as "increasing pressure"...There have been "ideas" of second fronts against Russia. 

-Georgia does not want to get destroyed/end up between Russia in the north, Türkiye in the south...

-Moldova would love to join EU/NATO...at least the ruling elite...most Moldovans inside Moldova are pro-Russian...

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A right-wing Israeli mob came to my family’s home yesterday to search for me, threatening close family members who fled to another town in the middle of the night. I am still getting death threats and had to cancel my flight home. 

This happened after Israeli media and German politicians absurdly labeled my Berlinale award speech - where I called for equality between Israelis and Palestinians, a ceasefire and an end to apartheid - as ‘antisemitic’. 

The appalling misuse of this word by Germans, not only to silence Palestinian critics of Israel, but also to silence Israelis like me who support a ceasefire that will end the killing in Gaza and allow the release of the Israeli hostages - empties the word antisemitism of meaning and thus endangers Jews all over the world. 

As my grandmother was born in a concentration camp in Libya and most of my grandfather’s family was murdered by Germans in the holocaust, I find it particularly outraging that German politicians in 2024 have the audacity to weaponize this term against me in a way that endangered my family. 

But above all else, this behavior puts Palestinian co-director Basel Adra’s life in danger, who lives under a military occupation surrounded by violent settlements in Masafer Yatta. 

He is in far greater danger than I am. I’m happy our award winning film, No Other Land, is sparking an important international debate on this issue - and I hope that millions of people watch it when it comes out this year. Sparking a conversation is why we made it. 

You can have harsh criticism of what me and Basel said on stage without demonizing us. If this is what you’re doing with your guilt for the holocaust - I don’t want your guilt.

DJ...zionist extremists terrorizing israeli citizens with western support...crazy !

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At this point a ceasefire literally equals standing against the intentional starving of helpless children. Israel is very openly using starvation as a weapon. Imagine being the sort of person who stands for continuing to deny food to children.

[url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0DqPbiKKis&t=21s[/url] or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0DqPbiKKis&t=21s ;

Ryan Dawson : WAR FOR PROFIT - The Military Industrial Complex

Join Judge Andrew Napolitano in a thought-provoking conversation with #RyanDawson as they delve deep into the intricate web of the Military Industrial Complex and its detrimental impact on society. In this discussion, we uncover the profit-driven motives behind perpetual wars and the collusion between government entities and defense contractors. Gain valuable insights into the complexities of global conflicts and the role of corporate interests in shaping foreign policy. Don't miss this crucial dialogue on the realities of war and its consequences for humanity. 

DJ...history repeating itself..."We" were fighting Russia 80 years ago...Only then "we" were nazi-forces from all over Europe...The german war-machine "boomed"...with the Ford-tank factory in Cologne -part of GM- NOT being bombed...ME-109 fighter planes till 1937 having RollsRoyce engines...

Today we have political-criminals claiming "war is good for the economy"...people "investing" in Lockheed-Martin, Raytheon etc. making money out of war...Most of the 61 billion US "aid" for Ukraine -now discussed- never will leave the US...Only move from public-tax payers funded-debt to private pockets of the very rich...

"Western civilization" has been killing all over the globe in the interest mostly of a rich elite...in fact for hundreds of years...

However the scale of western made wars did explode under biden...

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[url]https://twitter.com/vicktop55/status/1762933336240959549[/url] or https://twitter.com/vicktop55/status/1762933336240959549 

It is Kiev behind the scenes, through Western curators, that puts pressure on Chisinau in the case of unfreezing the military conflict.

[url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transnistria_War[/url] or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transnistria_War November 1990-july 1992 ethnic Russians in the former Soviet republic of Moldova created their own republic. 

NATO has been pushing for more fronts...Transnistria is in between Moldova and Ukraine...Moldovans living in the west -so outside Moldova-did vote for a pro-western government. Moldovans inside Moldova mainly are pro-Russian...[url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moldovan_protests_(2022%E2%80%932023)[/url] or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moldovan_protests_(2022%E2%80%932023) 

NATO and EU may welcome Moldova as a new member if Moldova would attack Transnistria...once part of Moldova. Ukraine -no doubt- willing to help...It could result in a civil war in Moldova...so Romanian-NATO forces may move in...Romania may even be willing to annex Moldova...it lost that part after 1945...Romania was a nazi-ally...

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[url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLCtlClQJls[/url] or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLCtlClQJls The Duran;

EU war economy utopia, Eurobonds and direct taxes

DJ, The Duran claiming the EU is pushing for EU-tax, an EU-army etc...part of the -complex- story is EU member states "dumping" matters they find difficult to deal with on a national level at the EU...So the EU has to make rules for "green farmers"...national governments can hide behind the EU...Using the EU as a national excuse for postponing hard decissions..."we have to decide this on a European level" ...Then the EU can not solve it -ping-pong back to national governments...

Building a war economy may take decades...not just months...However it underlines wars that are NEVER won on the battlefields but in factories, logistics etc. 

"israel" in crisis can see supplies getting air lifted from NATO "partners" (like Ukraine "israel" in many ways is integrated in NATO-as a non-NATO member...The US has a basis inside "israel"...). 

[url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5jJ9yrqAkY[/url] or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5jJ9yrqAkY Hindustan Times - India;

Al-Qassam Blows Up Israeli Soldiers Caught Inside Booby-trapped Gaza Building

A commander of the Al-Qassam Brigades has told Al Jazeera that Hamas fighters are managing the battle in the Zeitoun neighbourhood near Khan Younis city in southern Gaza. Hamas also released a video showing high-intensity clashes between its fighters and the Israel Army in the area a day after the IDF said it lost two soldiers. The soldiers were reportedly killed by an explosion inside a booby-trapped building in northern Gaza

DJ, NATO-proxy "israel" is losing the war in Gaza...It killed close to 30,000 people-most civilians..It may have killed several thousend Hamas "fighters"...only Hamas and other groups fighting occupation, Palestinian self-defence, now may have thousends of volunteers willing to fight..

For NATO/"israel" a few major problems;

-Palestinians know the area...every street, building..

-Palestinian fighters have the full support of the Palestine/Gaza population

-There is a major underground network (in part build by "israel" when it was under "israel occupation") Hamas etc. know how to use...

-Palestinians can be fighters one moment-civilian the next moment...they live there !!!

-Since the extreme zionists want to kill "all Arabs" Palestinians themselves are very motivated..

-Arab countries may stay out of the war but "support Palestine" 

[url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_involving_Israel#Table[/url] or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_involving_Israel#Table To put things in perspective..."Iron Swords" is a disaster...Making matters even worse is "israel" also keeps attacking Lebanon, Syria...[url]https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2024/02/28/720986/Syria-Israel-airstrike-Damascus[/url] or https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2024/02/28/720986/Syria-Israel-airstrike-Damascus ;

The Syrian military reportedly confronts an Israeli airstrike on a suburb of the Arab country's capital of Damascus.

The act of aggression was carried out on Wednesday from the direction of the country's Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, the official Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) reported, citing a military source.

DJ, "israel" attacking Iran-bases in Syria...trying to provoke a (major) attack to get NATO support for a war with Iran...

[url]https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2024/02/28/720988/German-warship-attacks-United-States-Reaper-drone-Yemen-Red-Sea-Israel-Gaza-war[/url] or https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2024/02/28/720988/German-warship-attacks-United-States-Reaper-drone-Yemen-Red-Sea-Israel-Gaza-war ;

A German warship partaking in a European anti-Yemen coalition in the Red Sea has mistakenly opened fire on an American MQ-9 Reaper drone, reports say.

German media outlets carried the reports on Monday, describing the attack as a friendly fire incident.

According to Germany's Der Spiegel weekly, the warship fired two missiles at the aircraft, but both the projectiles crashed into the sea because of "a technical defect."

DJ...again...western "military action" is very expensive...further worsening western debts/economic crises...

Both Ukraine and "israel" are "sinking"....the west better come up with better plans !

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[url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZM0zCu1uyUw&t=2411s[/url] or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZM0zCu1uyUw&t=2411s Alexander Mercouris;

EU Leaders Isolate Macron, Scrounge MidEast/Africa for Shells; Ukr May Coup Rumours; Rus Orlovka

DJ, in short;

-EU leaders have already "major support problems" -if they want their country/voters to protest even more sending their army into Ukraine may be a "good thing"...

-Middle East/Africa may offer 122/155 mm shells...EU being open about a budget may pump up the price...(DJ-Will Ukraine -via middlemen- sell its shells in storage to the EU..so the EU can send them to Ukraine...filling some corrupt pockets even more ???) AM also warning for "very old shells" not doing much on a battlefield/duds...

-In Kiev/ukraine support for continuation of the destruction of the country -for who/what ?- is sinking...

-Russia gaining ground while the real offensive still has to start...Ukraine air defense "gone" end of march, shells "run out" in may...

-AM also mentioned western countries sending Ukrainian refugees back to Ukraine (to die)  sink to a new low in human rights...

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Israeli Ambassador to the UN Calls Ukraine an "Ally" and Compares Russia to Hamas in Recent Speech

 Israel's UN ambassador, Gilad Erdan, addressed Russia in a recent speech, declaring Israel's commitment to providing early warning systems against missiles for Ukraine and referring to Ukraine as an "ally." 

Erdan also drew parallels between Russia and Hamas, criticizing Russia for hosting a visit by Hamas in Moscow. 

This statement appears to signal a shift in the relationship between Putin and the Israeli Prime Minister, marking the end of their association. 

This move, reminiscent of Amir Weitmann's previous viral statement, where he warned that "Russia is going to pay the price," suggests a significant development in the diplomatic landscape. 

Israel's supportive stance towards Ukraine may have broader implications, influencing discussions on military aid in the United States.

DJ Further underlining Ukraine and 'israel" both are part of the bigger NATO-BRICS war...

More than 100 killed as Israeli forces open fire in chaos at Gaza food lines, Palestinian health ministry says - CNN

DJ, NATO killed over 30,000 Palestinians since october 7...

Many high-profile Israel supporters have been circulating a fake screenshot of a Reddit account run by Bushnell saying "Palestine will be free when all the jews are dead." The fact that they're doing this illustrates two things: that Israel supporters are unscrupulous liars, and that they are freaking the fuck out about how much damage Bushnell has done to their cause. Reading by Tim Foley.

DJ...the major reason why "the world" knows of Bushnell his protest is because he live-streamed it...A woman (in the US) also burned herself to death in anti-genocide protest only to be ignored by "the media"...[url]https://asianews.network/a-devastating-act-of-reason/[/url] or https://asianews.network/a-devastating-act-of-reason/ ;

This is the second time that a person has set themselves on fire in front of an Israeli official building in the US. 

In December last year, a woman set herself on fire in front of the Israeli consulate in Atlanta, Georgia. 

A Palestinian flag was recovered from the scene, and the police deemed the incident as an “extreme act of political protest.”

 Further reporting on the incident and the identity of the person was not pursued by most Western media outlets. 

In the aftermath, the Consul General of Israel to the Southeast US, Anat Sultan-Dadon, had stated that “it is tragic to see the hate and incitement toward Israel expressed in such a horrific way.” They offered their prayers to the security officer who was injured—not to the protester—and even stated that “the sanctity of life is our highest value.” The sanctity of nearly 30,000 lives brutally cut short in Gaza, however, seem to be not part of their farcical moral value.

DJ, Hunger strikes have been used in the past as a way to protest...I myself believe in the "power of words"....

In conflicts one can sit down and talk if one has wisdom...The alternative -first fight than talk- always showed itself to be worse....

[url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacifism[/url] or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacifism ;

Pacifism covers a spectrum of views, including the belief that international disputes can and should be peacefully resolved, calls for the abolition of the institutions of the military and war, opposition to any organization of society through governmental force (anarchist or libertarian pacifism), rejection of the use of physical violence to obtain political, economic or social goals, the obliteration of force, and opposition to violence under any circumstance, even defence of self and others.

DJ...I believe human history clearly shows "war = bad"....there are ALWAYS better ways to find (maybe far from perfect) solutions...









If Christianity is a sect of Judaism (technically it is) all Christians are Jews and thus all Christians have a claim to Israel.

DJ...maybe there is not a very clear definition for "a Jew" ? Arabs also are [url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semitic_people[/url] or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semitic_people ;

Semitic people or Semites is an obsolete term for an ethnic, cultural or racial group[2][3][4][5] associated with people of the Middle East, including ArabsJewsAkkadians, and Phoenicians. The terminology is now largely unused outside the grouping "Semitic languages" in linguistics

So ...anti-semitism may also mean more than one thing/group...Anti-zionist extremism certainly is NOT anti-semitism...The basic idea of [url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zionism#Beliefs[/url] or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zionism#Beliefs was in reaction to European pogroms in the 19th century...

Using those ideas in West Asia in the 21st century may be unworkable...unless one creates a form of (religious based ?) apartheid...Most countries now are "multi-cultural"...

DJ-"Israel" in an identity-crisis ? 



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DJ, I think to understand todays conflicts one has to look at history;

-When the Germans invaded and occupied NL in may 1940 they expected the "Dutch" to be very "Deutsch"..."we" were supposed to be "Germans in denial of being German"...

When you look at language [url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low_German[/url] or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low_German the north of Germany and NL shared local languages/dialects...the border was -more or less- artificial...

[url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/County_of_Bentheim_(district)[/url] or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/County_of_Bentheim_(district) could have been Dutch...The language spoken in [url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duchy_of_Cleves[/url] or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duchy_of_Cleves "Kleeflands" was part of the basis for the Dutch language...

In 1936 hitler prohibited "Low German"...only "High German" was allowed...

Just like Germany NL had a religious mix, Catholics, Protestants mainly...Cultural both countries could be seen as a mix of surrounding cultures...Still in NL the east has German, north Scandinavian, south French and west Anglo-Saxon influence...

...very likely to their horror nazi's soon learned the Dutch were NOT German...[url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pillarisation[/url] or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pillarisation was a very major difference...NL much more than Germany was a global trader...so tolerance -to a certain level- was much more a norm...

About 10% of the Amsterdam population in may 1940 was Jewish...also Gelderland had a large -relative- Jewish population. They were part of society...sometimes "tolerated" -could NOT get public jobs...but were in NL for centuries...

Another aspect of NL...war is bad for bussinesses...So "we" tried to stay out of European wars...did fight colonial wars/mass murders...

The Dutch fascist leader of the [url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Socialist_Movement_in_the_Netherlands[/url] or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Socialist_Movement_in_the_Netherlands wanted a "Dietschland" NL + Flanders NEXT to Germany...hitler wanted to integrate NL into Germany...

DJ-A neutral NL would have been of much more use for nazi-Germany...(like Switzerland and Sweden NL being neutral would increase Dutch trade...like during World War One...)..So a major reason for the German invasion of NL may not have been military -invading France from the north...Belgium would be good enough for that...My view is hitler/nazi's believed NL may be integrated into Germany quite easy...They were wrong...

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The main reason why there is a "Jewish State" now is antisemitism in European history...So..the Palestinians had to pay a price for -most- European bad behaviour...

[url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zionism[/url] or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zionism as a result of a problem -widespread and long term- in Europe...

Based on religion "Zionism" often did seek a safe place for Jews in West Asia...Zion a mountain near Jerusalem...

My view; There are lots of "created" countries...an outcome of colonalisation/de-colonalisation...borders made in western/colonizer interests...Kuwait, Panama are "new recent countries" created for (western) economic interests...After World War Two lots of "new" countries showed up...

[url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberia#Early_colonization[/url] or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberia#Early_colonization did see freed slaves starting to build their own country -back in Africa- since 1822...

So the idea of "A Jewish State in West Asia" may not be that unique...The mass murder of Jews by the nazi's did push for a safe place for the Jews even harder...

My view; "moderate zionism" would have found a balance between Arabs in the region and new/old Jewish people-from around the globe...Some Jewish groups are anti-zionists...Orthodox for religious reasons but also some Jewish people "are happy" outside a Jewish State...[url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_Iran[/url] or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_Iran is interesting...

Another point is the definition of what is "Jewish"...In Europe lots of Jewish people were forced to become christian...did forget about Jewish roots and mix with local populations...

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The present problem may be in extremist zionism...in part also in reaction to the conflicts with Arabs/Palestinians...

Again...the west-for energy interests-using "israel" as a bridgehead to control Middle East oil, gas. logistics (Suez Canal, pipelines, searoutes)...

To compare NL-Germany with "israel" fitting in West Asia...the "gap" between "israel" and the surrounding region may have been even wider than NL/Germany may 1940...

To find a way out of the "Israel-Arab-conflict" one has to look at the differences/gap...

The 'israel" language and religion does NOT have to be a major problem in West Asia...The major problem-my view- is present "zionism" has resulted in a form of apartheid...Palestinians -often- as second class citizens with a "Palestinian homeland" denied its own future...

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Since the "outside world" has been such a major factor in West Asia since 1945 "the outside world" may have to come up with answers; (my view)

-Israel is integrated in all kinds of European cultural/sports events...That may put Israel in a wrong position by now...(it may have had its use decades ago...)

-Israel-as a trade nation- could be part of a WeatAsian Economic Organization (WAEO)...maybe BRICS+ can play a constructive role ? 

-At present "zionism has failed"...the Jews do NOT have a safe place in "Israel"....

-Again...it is not that clear what the fitting definition of "Jewish" is...religious, cultural, family ???

DJ, Semitic languages include both Hebrew and Arabic...[url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semitic_people[/url] or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semitic_people  is both Jews and Arabs...Middle East/Mediterranean...There are even some claims Christianity should be seen as part of Judaïsm...

One may even claim (some of)  the basics for the present "israel" crisis could be the same as basics for "anti-Jewish rules" in Europe...A group of people going for their own identity based on a mix of culture and socio-economic conditions...( with "Jewish" not that easy to define). 

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Zionist extremists now try to "create a safe place for Jews" in a "greater israel" and no room for other groups...I think that strategy is a disaster...It may only have some chance if "a foreign power"  will use such an idea for its own interest...NATO could try to regain control over West Asia by "using" the "greater israel" idea...

Again...anti-semitism/anti-Jew rules , in Europe-including Russia- were the basis for a need for a "Jewish safe place"...Most of Europe now has become "multi cultural"...parts of Europe did see religion as an influence decrease . 

Israel itself also -in the Jewish population- has become very mixed...non-religious groups identifying more as "Israeli" than as "Jewish" to orthodox even against the idea of "Israel"...

"Outside partners" have to "re-balance" a "state" (either "Israel" or Palestine) in the region...with respect for the interests of ALL...

The UN has been working on it since 1945...the cold war made matters only worse...Maybe BRICS+ as the dominant player in the region may be able to offer a way out...

NATO has to end its confrontation politics with BRICS+...again both Israel and Ukraine-wars are the outcome of western stupidity destroying the west...

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[url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUCi18L0VlY[/url] or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUCi18L0VlY Military Summary;

The Second Line Of Defense Collapsed | Sarmat Is In Full Combat Readiness. MS 2024.02.29

DJ, I started today's post with comparing NL with Germany may 1940...NL turned out NOT to "be German enough" to become part of nazi-germany...

Is Ukraine "part of Russia" ? Are Ukrainians "Russian" only in denial ? 

I think that question may not be a very major one...Russia is and was willing to accept Ukraine next to Russia...Ukraine was a "Socialist Soviet Repuplic/S.S.R.' in the Union of S.S.R./USSR/Soviet Union...

The present war is the outcome of NATO moving east...NOT of Ukraine "nationalism"...There is and was "friction" between Russians and Ukrainians...maybe relations not always were perfect...but "the west" again went for "divide and rule" in what they did see as western interests; via Ukraine get a grip on Russia...

MS video gets interesting most at the end; Will France send -openly- French military to fight for/with Ukraine ? DJ...such a move will further weaken the position of Macron...NO other country (including NL !) is willing to -openly- sending its military into this war...

Western military specialist running some Ukraine air defense, HIMARS, (sea)drones -as volunteers in active duty- still getting paid by their (most) NATO country is a "public secret"...Russia did publish a list of over 600 foreign fighters...most of them from the US, UK, some from Georgia, "israel"...

In the Ukraine war NATO is putting an "Ukraine-flag Yellow/Blue sticker" on NATO weapons so "Ukraine is using western weapons-but under the rules it are Ukrainian western weapons"...During the Vietnam war Warsaw-pact pilots did fly Migs for North Vietnam...rus part of North Vietnam air defense...

So-again-Russia is fighting NATO in Ukraine...with NATO getting hundreds of thousends Ukrainians killed...

NATO is running out of finance, weapons and public support for the Ukraine war...Certainly the US now is helping its other friend "israel"....

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China is sending diplomats to find a way out of the Ukraine war...zelensky recently visited Saudi Arabia...BRICS+ is getting "very involved"...

Only 20% of the Ukrainians wanted to join NATO, most wanted peace...living with Russia and the EU as neighbours...

For that matter very likely most Ukrainians will welcome an end to this war...even if some parts of Ukraine become Russian. Present Ukraine borders were mostly created after World War Two...

DJ-The major problem is "the west"...NATO expansionism may not end with Sweden...Finland did break a peacedeal made with the Soviet Union to stay neutral...Will Moldova get included in NATO ? Will eastern European countries move NATO into western Ukraine...

Sarmat Is In Full Combat Readiness. MS 2024.02.29

DJ, Russia in fact is in a war with NATO...[url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RS-28_Sarmat[/url] or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RS-28_Sarmat ;

The RS-28 Sarmat (Russian: РС-28 Сармат,[9] named after the Sarmatians;[10] NATO reporting nameSS-X-29[11] or SS-X-30[12]), often colloquially referred to as Satan II by media outlets, is a Russian liquid-fueledHGV-equipped and FOBS-capable super-heavy intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) produced by the Makeyev Rocket Design Bureau.[9][13][14][15] It is intended to replace the Soviet R-36M ICBM in Russia's arsenal.[16]

The Sarmat is one of six new Russian strategic weapons unveiled by Russian president Vladimir Putin on 1 March 2018.[17] The RS-28 Sarmat made its first test flight on 20 April 2022.[18] On 16 August 2022, a state contract was signed for the manufacture and supply of the Sarmat strategic missile system.[19] The missile officially entered combat service in September 2023, as the world's longest range and most powerful extant ICBM system.[20][21]

also 

[url]https://tass.com/defense/1737999[/url] or https://tass.com/defense/1737999 ;

Based on experts’ estimates, the RS-28 Sarmat is capable of delivering a MIRVed warhead weighing up to 10 tons to any location worldwide both over the North and South Poles

MOSCOW, January 26. /TASS/. This year’s top priorities for the Russian Armed Forces are to put into combat the advanced Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) systems and to commission the upgraded Tupolev Tu-160M strategic bombers and S-500 surface-to-air missile systems, Russian Deputy Defense Minister Alexey Krivoruchko said on Friday.

DJ...again Russia may be doing a lot of the fighting for BRICS+ against NATO...both in eastern Europe and West Asia/Africa...The Ukraine war is "just a segment" of the much larger conflict....End the Ukraine war soon is likely to be over...

To end the much larger NATO-BRICS+ war (with Russia and Iran at war with NATO) "the west" seems unable to "get realistic"....

DJ...again...talking reason to an idiot is a waste of time....

On the long term de-dollar-ization will de-finance NATO...unable to make/buy weapons/war...

On the short term however "there is a major problem"....

The basis of power for the west the last 500 years was violence, wars..."better" weapons...enforcing economic systems "good" for the west..Using the US$ for global (energy) trade was just the last of such economic systems keeping most of the world poor in the interest of a rich (once royal) elite...

Non-western countries did "break free"...Russia-China cooperation maybe the main factor...

In the SHORT TERM BRICS+ has to make clear its position...NATO is defending the US$/western domination/exploitation and "seems willing" to escalate even further...

"Make trade not war" is a basic idea of BRICS+...so in its conflict with "the west" maybe BRICS+ could come up with economic plans (some of) the west can not ignore ? 

The "west" is NOT united...Japan is still in energy deals with Russia-may try to avoid major problems with "big" China...

The EU would welcome bussinesses in Asia...The US may be the main problem, biden pushing for war with Russia (and Iran) , trump for conflict with China (and Iran)...

Further breaking up "the west" could be part of the BRICS-plan...

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Maybe part 3 of getting "a view" on the NATO-BRICS+ war has to focus on "the west";

[url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tr3ZDZAz51M[/url] or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tr3ZDZAz51M Military Summary giving his view on France sending fighters to Ukraine...it may have to do with getting/explaining over 60 French soldiers being killed in Charkow/Kherson recently...

MS also explaining Ukraine "demobilization" of 300,000 soldiers -in fact only 30,000 or so will be demobilized and support zelensky...It is meant to cover up massive losses of Ukraine...So "new soldiers" need to replace the demobilized ones...(of course getting killed is also a way of de-mobilization...).

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US elections -again- underline lots of western problems...Two much to old men -both with mental issues- running for POTUS...NOT to unify the country but to go for tribalism...divide the US...With that kind of leaders the US does not need a foreign enemy...

UK after Brexit "does not have any plan"....Occupied Northern Ireland soon may rejoin Ireland...Scotland may seek independence and the EU/€...So the UK may end up uniting England and Wales...Maybe "new labour" may be somewhat different from the conservatives in possibly thinking of rejoining the EU ???

That EU itself has very major problems..."European politicians" want much more power for the EU-less power for member states...maybe even a European army, EU-tax...EU-countries did give Brussel/EU a lot of power by dumping all kinds of internal problems at that EU...So the EU now has to deal with farmers, energy transition/climate to foreign policy...

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The west until recently "ruled the world"....After 1991 -end of the Soviet Union- the only superpower would be the US..."end of history bla-bla"....To further increase western dominance "globalization" seemed a good idea...cheap labour could bring down costs and increase profits...It did work well for some time...

Outsourcing production to non-western companies resulted in those companies getting "big"...

Not following "western rules" resulted in sanctions and wars (Iraq, Libya a.o.)...however (again) everything has its limits...sanctions as well..

The trump-trade war with China, breaking of the Iran-deal, blind pro-"israel" politics followed by biden seeking conflict with Russia did speed up BRICS cooperation...

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Neo-liberalism/neo-conservatism and protectionism/nationalizations do not mix that well...Companies/shareholders go for profit...and once poor-low labor cost-countries did get rich...OPEC+ did see the global market change...the "west" -also going "green" may not be the "best market"...OPEC+  joined BRICS+...

The west has to find answers to what role they want to play in the present global order...However present western leaders seem unable to understand the changes...

The present NATO-BRICS war -10% against 90% of the global population...has NATO losing...Neo-colonial trade days are over...

What the west needs is new leadership...willing to become a "partner" in a "multi-polar" world...no longer sticking to western domination...

For that matter the "west" at present is in a phase it may see itself confronted with its limits...If you always believed yourself to be "the boss"...telling others what they should do than that may come as a shock...

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The world-humanity- has to deal with very major problems; pandemics, climate...we should expect very serious massive problems very soon...

Do we need a "superstorm" spanning half an ocean killing tens-of-thousends ? Do we need a health-crisis killing millions ? 

So far the CoViD-pandemic, very likely killing somewhere between 20 and 40 million people, did NOT unite the world...

"United we stand-divided we fall" ...do we have to learn that lesson the hard way...

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[url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIvlAqFFu9o[/url] or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIvlAqFFu9o The Duran;

Putin, state of the nation and the Global Majority

DJ...conclusion "West against the rest"...

[url]https://tass.com/politics/1754273[/url] or https://tass.com/politics/1754273 ;

MOSCOW, March 1. /TASS/. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and his Turkish counterpart Hakan Fidan discussed the developments in the Middle East, North Africa and the Black Sea region on the sidelines of the Antalya Diplomacy Forum, the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement.

Lavrov discussed "the key aspects of the international agenda, including the situation in the Middle East, North Africa and the Black Sea region at a meeting with the Foreign Minister of the Republic of Turkey, [Hakan] Fidan," the ministry said.

The two top diplomats also synchronized watches on the pressing issues of the political dialogue between Russia and Turkey and bilateral trade-economic cooperation, according to the Russian Foreign Ministry.

Lavrov and Fidan last met on the sidelines of the G20 Foreign Ministers meeting in Rio de Janeiro.

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MOSCOW, March 1. /TASS/. Moscow demands that Berlin provide explanations concerning the leaked audio of German Bundeswehr officers discussing plans to attack the Crimean Bridge, and any attempt to avoid giving answers will be considered as an admission of guilt, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told TASS.

"We demand explanations from Germany. Official Berlin has to provide them promptly. Any attempts to evade answering questions will be viewed as an admission of guilt," she said.

Leaked conversation

RT Editor-in-Chief Margarita Simonyan said earlier that on the very day that German Chancellor Olaf Scholz gave assurances that NATO was not and would not be directly involved in the Ukraine conflict, Germany’s top brass was in fact mulling the option of attacking the Crimean Bridge in a way that would have no repercussions for Berlin by giving it the cover of plausible deniability. 

Simonyan said she had a corroborating audio recording in her possession and later released the transcript of the leaked conversation, which indicates that the officers were discussing how much destruction Germany’s Taurus long-range missiles could cause to the Crimean Bridge as well as details of preparations for such an attack.

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SHANGHAI, February 28. /TASS/. Statements that NATO may dispatch troops to Ukraine are nothing but a political bluff aimed at pushing Kiev to keep fighting despite the unfavorable battlefield situation, Wang Wen, executive dean of the Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies at Renmin University of China, told TASS.

"Reports that NATO is considering the possibility of deploying troops to Ukraine are no more than a threat. It is a sort of political bluff aimed at encouraging Ukraine to maintain resistance rather than surrender in an unfavorable military situation. As for the actual probability [of such troop movements], [European] NATO [members] would not dare to send troops there because the US has [already] made it clear it will not be sending its own troops," the expert pointed out.

In addition, according to him, "NATO’s current military power is not enough to confront Russia." However, in Wang’s words, NATO has in fact been involved in the conflict for the past two years because it provides Ukraine with mercenaries, satellite data and weapons. The expert believes the aforementioned remarks are intended as a message for Russia. 

"It is an attempt to threaten Russia in order to stop it from developing its offensive by saying that it would lead to the involvement of NATO forces," the analyst noted, adding that it would currently be more advantageous for NATO to participate in the conflict by means of providing Kiev with military aid and putting financial pressure on Ukraine.

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[url]https://tass.com/world/1754441[/url] or https://tass.com/world/1754441 ;

ANTALYA, March 1. /TASS/. Turkey's initiatives to find a peaceful solution to the conflict between Russia and Ukraine have not succeeded due to lack of support, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said at the opening of the Antalya Diplomacy Forum.

"The Ukrainian crisis has moved into its third year. The Istanbul [peace] process was kicked off here in Antalya. At that time, hopes for peace reached a new level. But unfortunately, due to lack of necessary support, our efforts went bust. The historic opportunity to achieve peace, prevent destruction and save tens of thousands of lives was essentially missed, or rather sabotaged," he said.

The president said the crises "in Syria, Yemen, Libya and Ukraine have shown that the current international system completely lacks effectiveness."

"But more than anywhere else, the bankruptcy of this rule-based system is evident in Gaza. What is happening in Gaza is definitely not a war, it is an attempt at genocide. The UN Security Council, international organizations have not taken steps to stop the bloodshed," Erdogan said.

Turkey’s peace efforts


In March 2022, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov met with Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba on the sidelines of a diplomatic conference in Antalya. The meeting was proposed by then Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu. However, those talks did not yield any substantial results. After that, a round of Russian-Ukrainian talks was held in Istanbul with Turkish support. Those talks produced an initialed treaty proposal, but it never materialized.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said in an interview with US journalist Tucker Carlson that Russia is still open to talks on Ukraine, but after the Istanbul talks fell through in March 2022, Moscow won’t make the first step.

DJ, Russia is not isolated...the west is...








The truth👇 "The only difference between our propaganda and the propaganda of a ruthless dictatorship is that the people who live under a dictatorship know they are being fed propaganda, whereas westerners are trained to believe they are ingesting impartial factual reporting."

DJ...most people in the west do not see the west is in a neo-colonial war with "the rest"...In this war the west has NO chance...the sooner it manages to get out of conflict-modus the better...The Duran may be right...the west may not be able to "act normal" .

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[url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNYcUr1DKDU[/url] or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNYcUr1DKDU MS;

Air Battle At Mykolaiv | NATO Plans Intervention | ICBM Test. Military Summary 2024.03.1

at the same time [url]https://twitter.com/GeromanAT/status/1763722714513027205[/url] or https://twitter.com/GeromanAT/status/1763722714513027205 ;

Russian TG channel writes: (could anyone fact check that please?) The founder of the private military company Blackwater, Erik Prince, is convinced that 99% of those who “support Ukraine” in the United States will not be able to find this country on the map. 

The most disgusting thing is that all these people who say “I support Ukraine” - spin the globe in front of them, and 99% of them will not even be able to find Ukraine on the map. So don't tell me what they think. 

Their opinion doesn't matter because they're idiots," Prince said during an interview on the PBD Podcast. He added that the military conflict in Ukraine must be ended, and Crimea, Donetsk and Lugansk should be “left” to Russia. 

"American taxpayers should definitely not spend another $100 billion in Ukraine when there is significant corruption there," Prince concluded. 

DJ, some western "politicians" now show all kinds of support for/with Ukraine...signing long term agreements...very likely expecting zelensky to fall this year..."cheap promisses"...








Venezuela's MADURO invokes Aaron Bushnell at Latin American and Caribbean States Leaders' Summit and calls to investigate "the fascist, neo Nazi government of Israel"   "If a man is capable of self-immolating, are we not capable of raising a united voice in Latin America?"

DJ, One of the reasons why the US has to "limit" itself in Ukraine-escalation is it would make US interests in the rest of the globe extra vulnerable...

Another reason will be biden now facing a choice in escalating the (Ukraine) war and (trying to get) elections...There is NO short term military solution for Ukraine...Lots of indications Russia may "roll up" most of Ukraine defenses...very likely resulting also in "regime change" in Kiev...

The Empire’s Weakness Is That It Still Needs Normal People To Turn Its Gears Imperial propaganda outlet The New York Times is currently embroiled in a massive scandal over its reporting which alleges mass rapes on October 7 — and the scandal is being fueled in part by leaks from its own staff. In case you haven’t been following the story, back in December the Times published an article titled “‘Screams Without Words’: How Hamas Weaponized Sexual Violence on Oct. 7” which was riddled with glaring plot holes that were exposed by research from outlets like The Grayzone, Electronic Intifada, and Mondoweiss. 

Later it came out with the help of an anonymous Twitter account named zei_squirrel that one of the three authors of the New York Times piece — Anat Schwartz — is a genocide-supporting Israeli intelligence veteran who had never worked in journalism before, and that another author of the piece — a food writer named Adam Sella — is her partner’s nephew.

 In late January a report from The Intercept revealed that there was a major internal conflict at The New York Times about the strength of the reporting in “Screams Without Words”, with a Times podcast dedicated to the article postponed and then abandoned when staff couldn’t agree whether to stick to the original reporting and risk an embarrassing retraction, or present it in less certain light and tacitly advertise that they didn’t have confidence in their report.

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The western empire cannot operate without (A) ordinary people and (B) nonstop lies and propaganda, and the more overt and ham-fisted (B) becomes the more it’s necessarily going to conflict with its need for (A). The empire is going to struggle to get people dropping its bombs, moving its war machinery, churning out its propaganda and running its government agencies if it keeps acting in ways which dramatically conflict with what westerners have been taught to believe about their society, their media, their government, and their world.


 This is why you’ll sometimes see the empire step back from taking the most horrific actions it could take. It doesn’t happen because the empire is moral or kind, it happens because it can’t afford to wake too many people up to its depravity. That’s the line the empire has been tightrope-walking these last five months, and the more attention we ordinary people can draw to the conflict between its actions and its narratives about itself, the more we shake that slender wire its feet struggle to balance upon.

DJ [url]https://twitter.com/caitoz/status/1763773590644969887[/url] or https://twitter.com/caitoz/status/1763773590644969887 US/NATO policies based on debts and lies....When confronted with "realities" the lies fall apart...

Still there are some "basic" problems; "We can not let the other party win" may be the most dangerous-pulling countries deeper in the swamp...

Russian TG channel writes: The following message appeared on the Internet: “North Korea is sending Russia 6,700 containers containing more than 3 million artillery shells.” In short, it's great. 

This deal, if it takes place, helps Russia resolve a number of very important issues in the short term, I’ll focus on two: 

1. Allows our military-industrial complex to focus on more important areas and free up workers, directing them to where they are most needed. Thereby accelerating the rearmament of not only the army, but also the entire military-industrial complex. 

2. North Korea is increasingly cooperating with Russia, which is bearing fruit both militarily and economically. Moreover, strong mutually beneficial relations with our eastern neighbor are a guarantee of stability and a kind of airbag.
 #opinion 🇷🇺 Sofa General Staff

DJ [url]https://twitter.com/GeromanAT/status/1763720248849539130[/url] or https://twitter.com/GeromanAT/status/1763720248849539130 Russia is now getting in a sort of military alliance-a.o. with Iran, North Korea...

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[url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtlcLA6TvzU[/url] or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtlcLA6TvzU MS;

Russian Flag Over Tonenke And Orlivka. SU57 Is Waiting For F16. MIlitarySummary 2024.3.2

DJ-maybe a small remark- 3 - 2 in NL would suggest february 3...In some other countries 3 - 2 means march 2..(so I will name the month). 

-There have been reports of a(nother) drone strike near St.Petersburg -not far from Finland...far away from Ukraine [url]https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/ukraine-drone-bombs-st-petersburg-russia[/url] or https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/ukraine-drone-bombs-st-petersburg-russia ...again-is there a Special Air Service UK-Special forces unit in between Moscow and St-Petersburg ? (Maybe also involved with shooting down the plane with Prigozjin-leader of Wagner ?)

-MS mentioned after Transnistria also [url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gagauzia[/url] or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gagauzia ; Gagauzia or Gagauz-Yeri,[a] officially the Autonomous Territorial Unit of Gagauzia[b] (ATUG),[3][c] is an autonomous territorial unit of Moldova. Its autonomy is intended for the local Gagauz people, a Turkic-speaking, primarily Orthodox ethnic group

DJ, It is reminding MS of the Donetsk/Luhansk peoples republic (DPR/LPR) seeking Russian protection. Very likely Moldova "moving more towards NATO" may face a proRussian uprising...The government is pro-western-based on votes from Moldovans in the west...Most Moldovans inside Moldova are pro-Russian..(did stop NATO forces moving into Moldova as "guests". Romania has claims on Moldova. After 1945 Moldova was part of a Romania-USSR peacedeal...). 

Is a coup against Zelensky brewing? the leader of the “Right Sector”* Dmitry Yarosh calls to unite against the power of Zelensky and co. He calls them liquidators of the Ukrainian people,” Mriya writes. “ This government understands perfectly well what it is doing. 

The current government is the liquidator of our statehood. Zelensky bears personal responsibility for this; he is the one who heads the country. Every day they make new messes. 

The state system is destroyed, the principles on which the state is built are destroyed. In my opinion, those people who profess patriotism should become a single force. We must unite, as we did in 2004 and 2014, thanks to this we won on the Maidans .”

DJ, Lots of Ukrainians are totally fed up with the destruction of Ukraine...For what ? To become a NATO-member ? US-bases near the Russian border ? Western mining companies stealing Ukraine resources..? 

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This Israeli teacher was fired and jailed for criticizing the military's campaign in Gaza.

DJ, Both two above tweets refer to opposition against wars from inside the NATO-proxies...DW-Deutsche Welle -so far- did see any criticism on "israel" as anti-semitism...Ignoring a lots of people identifying themselves as "Jewish" are AGAINST the netanyahu/extreme zionists genocide...

In Gaza the "only area" under "israel" control is the area flattened, bulldozered...In the "Urban Jungle" Hamas (a.o.) keeps showing up attacking/killing "israel" occupiers/settlers...

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The "big picture"; NATO in general still may be provoking Russia, Syria/Arab world...so far NOT getting the "unprovoked Russian agression/blind Iran terrorism" they hope to get as an excuse for further escalation...

As a result NATO more and more getting divided;

-US elections mean "only victories" are welcome for biden...otherwise pull out...

-Türkiye -still in NATO- did see Lavrov talking with Turkish FM on "events"....

-Macron-France may be thinking of "sending in French forces-to get killed French soldiers out of Ukraine"....(In recent attacks France may have seen close to 100 French "volunteers" killed). 

-In Germany opposition to the wars is growing fast...the present government may lose regional elections and run out of parliamentary support...

-NL-PM rutte visited Charkow with zelensky in his campain to become new secretary general of NATO....

-In the UK "anti-extremists-laws" are introduced to stop protests against Gaza-genocide, climate destruction, "living-with-the-virus" damage (Long CoViD patients ending up in poverty...). 

BRICS+ may be moving further towards a "military cooperation"...








Being forced through American-supported starvation to eat an American-dropped food parcel & then being sniped at with American supplied bullets and blown up with an American made bomb. Then an American journalist reports your death by saying Israel has a right to defend itself.

DJ, The west has put itself in an impossible position...Both the Ukraine and Palestine war could -and should- have been avoided ! 

Both wars are bankrupting the west and speeding up de-dollar-ization...One of the goals was to "save" the US$...so the wars reach the opposite...

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This -sunday-morning update from MS [url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBHtq-SRCwE[/url] or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBHtq-SRCwE ;

NATO deployment plans | Ivanivske Will Soon Fall | Crimea Is Under Attack. Military summary 2024.3.3

has a few interesting items;

-Positions of forces from "a coalition of the willing" inside Ukraine; France, NL, Poland, Slovakia, Sweden (like Ukraine national colors are Blue-Yellow...may try to learn more on a possibly historical link ?) would be on

A-Ukraine-Belarus border

B-East of Odessa/Dnjepr

Very likely it was a "plan" discussed and "confidential"....

Western armies moving into Western Ukraine would be seen as a further escalation...May see Russian missile strikes and could bring Belarus into the war...It will very likely NOT stop plans for Russia to -one day- take Odessa/Black Sea coast but it may increase the chance of Russia doing that in a military way rather than via a peace-deal with a new Kiev-government...

Such a "move" -very UNLIKELY !!!- under French leadership would also divide further NATO...(US, UK, Germany, Türkiye NOT joining such a plan...Poland, NL a.o. denying -for now- they have such plans...). 

Another complication may be Ukraine nationalists may NOT welcome a.o. Polish forces in the west of Ukraine...fear those forces may be part of a plan to take western Ukraine "back into Poland"...

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Ukraine now dropping "flashlight-mines" in the Donetsk region...The mines look like flashlights only they explode when you try to put it on...In the past Ukraine dropped other mines/explosives on a.o. Donetsk...

AGAIN....The Russian claim is they started the Special Military Operations (SMO) to protect ethnic Russians...Ukraine (with NATO support)  was planning to invade Eastern Ukraine -february 2022- to "end the pro-Russian uprising" (and killing/expelling  millions of ethnic Russians...a bit Gaza-genocide scenario...In between 2014 and 2022 over 14,000 ethnic Russians -most civilian- got killed by Ukraine shelling...). 

MS reporting last week over 1,000 Ukraine soldiers getting killed per day (Russian ministery of defense-numbers)...Compared to the West Asia war 200-300 deaths per day...

After a false flag attack that will shit everyone up to hunt the Muslims like they did loo roll in Covid Sunak/Starmer will impose martial law and blame “Islamists” To help enlist British citizens for their military deficit in the inevitable event of WWIII.

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Martial law has been bubbling since covid

DJ, with "the west" pushing for wars (US opening a base on Taiwan ???[url]https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/u-s-stations-special-forces-permanently-on-taiwan[/url] or https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/u-s-stations-special-forces-permanently-on-taiwan ) repression in the west may become "a new normal" including further limiting free speech/censorship...

Also tax going up, public spending on healthcare, housing, transport, schools going down to send more to the war-industry shareholders...

No western country will accept such tyranny for long...You can not send most military to a foreign war AND use that military to help the police to "stop protests"...

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[url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdNPYwX5J1I[/url] or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdNPYwX5J1I Hindustan Times - India;

'Macron, Go Fight Alone For Ukraine': Big Protest In Paris; NATO, EU Flag Ripped 

A massive protest erupted in France's capital, Paris, over sending troops to the Ukraine. Hundreds of protesters were seen opposing a recent proposal by Emmanuel Macron. "Macron, go to Ukraine alone," slogans were raised by angry protesters. Demonstrators also tore up EU and NATO flags and waved French tricolours instead. The protesters carried banners saying, "We are not willing to die for Ukraine" and "Let's stop pumping weapons into Kyiv." This comes after Emmanuel Macron hinted at a possible NATO troop deployment in Ukraine. 
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[url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5N_v16L1PX8[/url] or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5N_v16L1PX8 The Duran;

G7 frustration trying to seize Russian frozen assets

DJ, European Central Bank, financial institutions in the City of London warning against stealing Russian billions...it would destroy any trust in doing bussinesses with "the west"...still biden/EU "leaders" may push for it...[url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Hs3ftS3gTk[/url] or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Hs3ftS3gTk Lena Petrova;

BE PREPARED: $1.13 TRILLION in Consumer Credit Card Debt Hits Record High as Delinquencies SURGE

DJ the west is seeing debts explode...interest payments may soon take most of the budgets...

[url]https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/nato-mafia-protection-racket[/url] or https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/nato-mafia-protection-racket ;

NATO is the distribution network for US arms manufacturers to sell US weapons to NATO members. The demand for those weapons is created by the CIA which constantly produces chaos and crisis around the world.

It’s the Mafia business model of creating the threat and selling protection.

Criminals.

DJ...wake up ! It does not matter if you are "left-wing" or "right wing"...the NATO war-promotion team is destroying the planet...

[url]https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/germany-confirms-leaked-audio-its-top-generals-discussing-blowing-crimean-bridge[/url] or https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/germany-confirms-leaked-audio-its-top-generals-discussing-blowing-crimean-bridge 

In a huge development and absolute smoking gun revelation, the government of Germany has confirmed the authenticity of a leaked audio recording file published by Russia's state-backed RT. The leak was first published by RT Editor-in-Chief Margarita Simonyan, who described that she received it from Russian security officials.

It first appeared under the headline "Alleged audio of German officers discussing Crimean Bridge attack leaked" - as it featured top ranking Germany military officials in a private discussion of "a potential German operation to bomb the Crimean Bridge in Russia," as it was initially described by RT. Russian media is now openly admitting that the call was in fact intercepted by Russia. Moscow is now saying this shows "direct" German involvement in the war.

DJ...how much further does NATO-members think they can go in provoking war ? 

[url]https://www.moonofalabama.org/2024/03/ukraine-sitrep-retreat-continues-for-lack-of-defense-lines.html[/url] or https://www.moonofalabama.org/2024/03/ukraine-sitrep-retreat-continues-for-lack-of-defense-lines.html ...western forces moving into Ukraine to find defense lines never were created...western billions stolen...But STILL western "leaders" keep pushing/creating more billions in "aid for Ukraine"...

Age of insanity !

[url]https://www.who.int/emergencies/situations/conflict-in-Israel-and-oPt[/url] or https://www.who.int/emergencies/situations/conflict-in-Israel-and-oPt ;

Since 7 October 2023, the escalating crisis in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territory has caused large numbers of civilian deaths and injuries.

In the Gaza Strip, airstrikes and a lack of medical supplies, food, water and fuel have virtually depleted an already under-resourced health system. Hospitals have been operating far beyond capacity due to rising numbers of patients as well as displaced civilians seeking shelter. The provision of essential health services – from maternal and newborn care to treatment for chronic conditions – has been severely compromised. 

In Israel, hundreds of civilians - including children and the elderly - have been taken hostage.

Attacks on health have been reported in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territory, killing and injuring health workers and patients, and damaging health facilities and ambulances. 

WHO is working with partners to address the most urgent health needs, including through the provision of life-saving medical supplies. 

WHO urges all parties to protect health and ensure safe access to health care for their populations.

DJ...wars increase public health and pandemic risks..

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Yellow-Blue link Sweden - Ukraine 

[url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweden%E2%80%93Ukraine_relations[/url] or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweden%E2%80%93Ukraine_relations 

The first documented contacts between the people of Scandinavia and the Slavic territories of Ukraine are the Varangian journeys to what they called Garðaríki.[citation needed] One of these Varangians was Rurik who according to the Primary Chronicle was the founder of the Rurik Dynasty which ruled Kievan Rus until the 14th century.[1] Relations between the Swedish kings and Kievan Rus were close for many centuries and Yaroslav I the Wise was also married to king Olof Skötkonung's daughter Ingigerd Olofsdotter.[2]

According to the Normanist theory, the Kievan Rus is thought to have adopted its name from the Varangian elite, which was first mentioned in the 830s in the Annals of Saint Bertan. The Annals recount that Holy Roman Emperor Louis II's court at Ingelheim, in 839 (the same year as the first appearance of Varangians in Constantinople), was visited by a delegation from the Byzantine emperor. The delegates included two men who called themselves "Rhos" ("Rhos vocari dicebant"). Louis inquired about their origins and learned that they were Swedes. Fearing that they were spies for their brothers, the Danes, he incarcerated them. They were also mentioned in the 860s by Byzantine Patriarch Photius under the name, "Rhos."

DJ...So "Ukrainians would be "old-Swedish"-Russians "old-Danish"????

[url]https://ejmagnier.com/2024/03/03/the-palestinian-resistance-has-shattered-the-illusion-of-an-invulnerable-and-fearsome-military-force/[/url] or https://ejmagnier.com/2024/03/03/the-palestinian-resistance-has-shattered-the-illusion-of-an-invulnerable-and-fearsome-military-force/ 

Against this backdrop, the Israeli press has loudly highlighted the significant losses suffered by the military, claiming that the Israeli armed forces are reeling and urgently calling for the recruitment of an additional 14,500 soldiers to face the robust Resistance in Gaza. This begs the question: What can the Resistance achieve against the colossal Israeli war machine?

Israel has publicly downplayed its casualties since 7 October, reporting only 3,014 officers and soldiers injured and around 600 killed. But this starkly contrasts the higher casualty figures acknowledged in military circles and the urgent calls for reserve units to be strengthened by calling up more personnel to replenish their depleted ranks. Confirmations from hospital sources published by the Israeli media indicate that the two-front conflict has resulted in more than 25,000 to 35,000 wounded, a figure that contrasts sharply with official statistics and underlines the severe impact of the Resistance faced by the Israeli military.

DJ...if real wounded is 10X higher than the "official numbers" did "israel" also see over 6,000 "fighters" killed since october 7 ? 

[url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_involving_Israel#Table[/url] or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_involving_Israel#Table highest number so far was 4,074 "israeli fighters" killed between 1947-49...656+ latest number for the present war(s)...

#Iraq: Resistance forces sent a drone against a chemical plant in #Haifa. The outcome is unclear but irrelevant. Iraqi resistance testing Israeli defences, sending message that multi-front war is still an option.

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When the #US has supplied #Israel with at least 22,000 dumb bombs, 6,000 guided missiles and 50,000 artillery bombs, why does it complain about "too many Palestinian civilians killed"?

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For the first time since 1982, #Hezbollah fired more than 1000 guided missiles and hundreds of rockets away from residential areas in the south of #Lebanon, unlike #Israel, which has tanks and command and control centres among the settlements and civilian homes.

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The calculus of conflict between Hezbollah's deterrence and Israel's destruction: Understanding the Dynamics of War. Written by Elijah J. Magnier

[url]https://twitter.com/ejmalrai/status/1764004317890068875[/url] or https://twitter.com/ejmalrai/status/1764004317890068875 

DJ...there may be discussion on;








"Israeli violence isn’t the product of Netanyahu, Netanyahu is the product of Israeli violence. "

I think"israel" is based on violence...so are most American countries, Australia, New Zealand, Hawaii etc..."israel" was a reality untill netanyahu started a genocide...realities are often injust, outcome of violence...but still there...

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DJ, The ONLY "good" news on wars is END of war...!

To be very clear; In a war people try to destroy eachother. They do not know the other person...but "leaders" ordered a group of people to start killing another group of people...

Understanding WHY people follow that kind of criminal orders underlines the need of social studies....

Another point is tony bliar, bush, balkenende/rutte, biden, netanyahu etc. simply get away with war crimes...Killing one million people in Iraq ? "NATO did that"...not "me"? 

Why do we end up with murdering maniacs at the top ? Why do WE accept that ? 

Why do we accept money needed for schools, housing, the next generation...is used to destroy and kill ? Leaving next generations with debts in many ways...

There are growing protests-very welcome...In the UK sunak pm is making "laws against extremism"...In the UK critcizing the mass murder in Gaza is "presented by the elite" as anti-semitism....It does not stop the protests...it should only increase the protests !

Certainly the German "green party" betrayed every basic idea of a "Green movement" by showing themselves to be a bunch of war mongers...

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I am NOT neutral...I come from a Pacifist Socialist Party (PSP) background in NL [url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacifist_Socialist_Party[/url] or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacifist_Socialist_Party 

If we are unable to solve our differences in a peacefull way -certainly in a nuclear age- humans have NO future...I have a limited history background..for the rest not any kind of expert (=tunnelvision often...)

[url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMsjtEO9aO4[/url] or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMsjtEO9aO4 MS;

Abrams Counterattack Repelled. Russian Flag In Novomykhailivka. MilitarySummary 2024.3.3

DJ...the video's include tanks being blown up...often there are people inside those tanks (sometimes an empty tank is left behind) ...If the people inside such a tank die at the moment of strike they are lucky...Quite often they may get stuck and burn alive....

MS also reported Ukraine getting together another 47,000 new "recruits"...live span one month...The last week+ Ukraine losses are over 1,000+ killed per day...Most of those killed may have been in barracks are in a transport...NOT on a frontline...

Ukraine is mainly recruiting people that do not identify themselves as Ukrainian...People with Hungarian or Russian background get killed...And of course lots of "western volunteers" still being paid from the military budget from their NATO country...

NATO is fighting Russia/BRICS in Ukraine...

In my view from the presen three frontlines in the NATO-BRICS+ wars the Ukraine frontline is highest risk and most deathly...

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Yemen/Red Sea is a front line getting out of the news...A lot of western shipping now going via South Africa...NATO may have used over 1 billion US$ worth of bombs on Yemen...(Yemen GDP per year may be LESS !!! than what NATO did use to keep destroying Yemen !!)

"Military options" in "the area" are limited and often "not cost-effective"....NATO attacks on Yemen did increase popularity of the Houthis...

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NATO proxy "israel" is in the worst crisis ever...fighting a multi-front war....and NOT winning it on any of the frontlines...

For every "terrorist" NATO get killed in Palestine several other "fighters" show up...Weapons/logistics do not seem to be a very big problem...even in Gaza. 

DJ, In lots of guerilla wars guerilla-fighters use the weapons/supplies from the one they fight and kill...

In the West Bank "israel" killed over 100 children...may have "arrested" thousends...(some indications 'israel" arresting even "very young" 3-4 y/o ???)

In fact there is a war on the Lebanon/Syria border...Over 1 million "israeli's" now live in safer hotels further away from the fronts...However "israel" is very small...it can NOT provide safety anywhere inside its border....

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The economy of Ukraine and "israel" is "gone".....It may make other countries (Moldova, Georgia) think twice before becoming a NATO tool against BRICS+...

Very likely new BRICS members; Egypt, Ethiopia, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Iran did expect "the west" to start some conflict/chaos to stop BRICS...The Red Sea/West Asia frontline is NOT a coincidence...

New BRICS members; Algeria, Nigeria, Venezuela, Angola, Kazachstan may be high on a list-all energy producers/exporters- very likely may seek also "military protection" against NATO agression if they join BRICS+....

So the outcome of NATO stupidity may be a growing number of Russian, Iran, India, China military bases....around the globe. 

Venezuela in the last five years did welcome a Russian long distance bomber visiting the country (also a.o. visited Indonesia...). China and Iran "work" with Venezuela...may start a "military project" in "the region" also including Cuba, Nicaragua...others ? 

So...on the Texas coastline soon Chinese, Iran navy ships may show up ? Instead of US bases in Ukraine a Russian base in Cuba ? 

Sweden, Finland (Finland is breaking neutrality agreements from a post World War Two agreement with the Soviet Union !) will NOT have US bases...but may "offer hospitality"...

DJ...NATO/EU/US/UK may "break" under the burden of this many wars to defend the US$/western colonialism....

From my perspective I hope to see "progressive parties" finally start protesting this insanity ! NATO is NOT, has NEVER been a "peace club"...in many ways the war industry is now using NATO like they once used the nazi's...promoting war to steal oil, gas, slave labor...in the interest of the few at the cost of the many...

STOP NATO NOW !!! Before we sink even deeper in crazy wars, closer to nuclear wars ending us all !

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Maybe start at the "home front";

[url]https://workerspartybritain.org/manifesto-britain-deserves-better/[/url] or https://workerspartybritain.org/manifesto-britain-deserves-better/ ;

  • We are calling for a referendum on membership of NATO with a view to a national debate on all our collective security arrangements. Our own position is clear – under current circumstances, we will continue to campaign for Britain to leave NATO as a clear and present danger to the security of the British population and seek new collective security arrangements centred on the protection of peoples and not of states or industries.







the long pause in between “immediate ceasefire” and “at least for the next six weeks”:

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[url]https://twitter.com/SWagenknecht/status/1761348348706017424[/url] or https://twitter.com/SWagenknecht/status/1761348348706017424 ;

“I want the dying to end. How do you want to end this war if you don't want peace talks?" I had a discussion with Bild war reporter Paul Ronzheimer about Russia and the Ukraine war, which has now lasted two years.

DJ, UK, Germany...last weekend also France did see anti-war demonstrations...No doubt in lots of other places -in the west- people are fed up with war promoting lunatic "leaders" destroying public healthcare, education, housing transport for profits of a war-industry that was able to take over power....

[url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2L3L49zLW5I[/url] or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2L3L49zLW5I MS;

Russian Progress In Novomykhailivka | High Ukrainian losses. Military Summary 2024.03.04

DJ, March 3 did see close to 1,500 Ukraine "soldiers" (often hardly trained-civilians forced to fight/die for the US$ in a war they did not want) die...

MI6 "promoting" another Ukraine "summer offensive bloodbath"....Is it a NATO goal to see over 1 million Ukrainians die in this biden-made war ? 

-[url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7mLfZdiIHY[/url] or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7mLfZdiIHY Hindustan Times-India;

Netanyahu Fumes As Rival Gantz Makes ‘Unauthorised’ U.S. Visit; ‘Israel Has Only One PM…’

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu fumed over his wartime cabinet minister Benny Gantz's visit to the United States amid the war in Gaza. According to an Israeli official, Netanyahu 'talked tough' with Gantz and told him 'Israel has just one prime minister.' This after Gantz reportedly did not take permission from Netanyahu to visit the US.

DJ...for genocide-joe-biden and his gang the only goal is to win the US "elections"...so dump "allies" like Ukraine "israel" if they get in the way of reelection...You can always (re)start (other) wars after reelection...So is gantz supposed to replace netanyahu ? Is zalushny supposed to replace zelenski ? 

trump rather goes for war with China...both biden and trump go for war with Iran...Over 70% of US voters are "very unhappy" with both old men destroying the US....

[url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6Z5pzv4Mq8[/url] or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6Z5pzv4Mq8 Lena Petrova/US;

US SENATOR EXPOSES Government: US Is DEAD BROKE & Govt Spending Is a SCAM, Says Sen. T. Tuberville

DJ...let me invite you into the "War Investment Fund" WIF to make profits from war and human suffering ! WIF has shares in Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, but is also already buying ammunition western politicians may use your tax money for...

Make stupid politicians work for you ! They start wars without looking forward so prices go up...for ammo, grain, transport ! 

The "War Investment Fund" loves war ! Dont you ? (cynical...however some people do get very rich exploiting wars they help to create...donating to "politicians for sale"...)

[url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0pFGl5gkns[/url] or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0pFGl5gkns The Duran;

The Ukraine War & the Eurasian World Order - Alexander Mercouris & Glenn Diesen

DJ, Very good discussion ...

[url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn_Diesen[/url] or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn_Diesen ;

Glenn Eric Andre Diesen (born 1979) is a Norwegian political scientist[1] who is known as a regular commentator on the Russian state-controlled international news television network RT. Academics as well as Scandinavian media have criticized him for promoting Russian propaganda

DJ...if you do not promote NATO warcrimes you are "pro-Putin", anti-semitic, defending terrorism and may end with child porn on a laptop the state claims is yours...tax-fraud or other ways to silence opposition...

"That's what I'm predicting here. The next election will be about muslims and will be about the taking away of civil liberties in this country. It's Sunak's last hope." George Galloway speaks after being sworn in as Rochdale's MP. https://trib.al/YKanzN3

DJ, western "leaders" going for divide and rule games in the west....to keep wars going...

I think it is good to be aware of "propaganda" from all sides. But what makes sense for you ? More war ? To get where ? Why ? 

Does "the west" has any right for "regime change" in Russia ? Iran ? China ? Cuba ? etc ????

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[url]https://www.amazon.com/Ukraine-War-Eurasian-World-Order/dp/1949762955[/url] or https://www.amazon.com/Ukraine-War-Eurasian-World-Order/dp/1949762955 ;

Five hundred years of Western hegemony has ended, while the global majority’s aspiration for a world order based on multipolarity and sovereign equality is rising. This incisive book addresses the demise of liberal hegemony, though pointing out that a multipolar Westphalian world order has not yet taken shape, leaving the world in a period of interregnum. A legal vacuum has emerged, in which the conflicting sides are competing to define the future order.

NATO expansionism was an important component of liberal hegemony as it was intended to cement the collective hegemony of the West as the foundation for a liberal democratic peace. Instead, it dismantled the pan-European security architecture and set Europe on the path to war without the possibility of a course correction. Ukraine as a divided country in a divided Europe has been a crucial pawn in the great power competition between NATO and Russia for the past three decades.

The war in Ukraine is a symptom of the collapsing world order. The war revealed the dysfunction of liberal hegemony in terms of both power and legitimacy, and it sparked a proxy war between the West and Russia instead of ensuring peace, the source of its legitimacy.
The proxy war, unprecedented sanctions, and efforts to isolate Russia in the wider world contributed to the demise of liberal hegemony as opposed to its revival. Much of the world responded to the war by intensifying their transition to a Eurasian world order that rejects hegemony and liberal universalism. The economic architecture is being reorganised as the world diversifies away from excessive reliance on Western technologies, industries, transportation corridors, banks, payment systems, insurance systems, and currencies. Universalism based on Western values is replaced by civilisational distinctiveness, sovereign inequality is swapped with sovereign equality, socialising inferiors is replaced by negotiations, and the rules-based international order is discarded in favour of international law. A Westphalian world order is reasserting itself, although with Eurasian characteristics.

The West’s defeat of Russia would restore the unipolar world order while a Russian victory would cement a multipolar one. The international system is now at its most dangerous as the prospect of compromise is absent, meaning the winner will take all. Both NATO under US direction and Russia are therefore prepared to take great risks and escalate, making nuclear wan increasingly likely.

Again-see also [url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0pFGl5gkns[/url] or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0pFGl5gkns The Duran, both Glenn Diesen and Alexander Mercouris have -a.o.- a history background...

[url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybsRRB7PHfc[/url] or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybsRRB7PHfc Also The Duran;

Fear and panic grips UK establishment

DJ, George Galloway winning the by-elections-getting more votes in the district than the three "old parties" together...

So UK-PM sunak goes to the press to warn against all kinds of "extremism"...If you do not agree with western uni-party elite you are either extreme right wing, pro-Putin, supporting terrorism...

How long will it take before "uni-parties" cancel elections to "save democrazy" ?  Most western leaders/governments are losing support-often at unseen levels...

[url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGKScQwH1I4[/url] or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGKScQwH1I4 MS;

Ukrainians Destroyed A Russian Ship | Russian Offensive In Krasnohorivka. Military Summary 2024.03.5

DJ...very likely the UK/US destroyed the Russian ship from Ukraine soil...also attacks on Crimea-bridge...was it French, German, UK or US missiles ? 

MS also did mention recently a Russian tank shelled Ukraine positions in northern Ukraine-from inside Russia...How close is Russia in preparing a northern offensive ? DJ-I think "moving to Odessa/Black Sea coast" may be a higher priority;

-It would stop western attacks on Russian ships from inside Ukraine

-It also would control Ukraine export/trade...Poland border also blocked-including military goods...

[url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5KLzPbUheE[/url] or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5KLzPbUheE Judge Napolitano;

Scott Ritter: How close are we to global confrontation? 

DJ, some good questions/points;

-NATO members are "helping Ukraine"...not NATO itself ?

-A lot of "help" without parliamentry info....

-Germany in a political sense would NOT send missiles to Ukraine...how can it be German high rank military did discuss (a.o. using a Singapore hotel telephone...) sending those missiles to attack the Crimea-bridge...a civilian target...

DJ; BRICS+ is NOT (yet) a military alliance. It is a "group of countries trying to increase trade and prosperity"...Using their own currency is meant to make those currencies stronger (and is NOT meant as an attack on the US$)...However the western reaction is pushing BRICS+ closer to also coordinating security...

Countries that dropped the US$ for energy trade; Libya, Iraq etc did see US/NATO attacks. So...BRICS+ may try to avoid war...the west may need war to keep the uni-party political (corrupt) elite in power...

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DJ, MS mentioned why zelensky wants 61 US$ billion...so he can pay "his" soldiers...there is not even money for "new recruits"...Lots of killed Ukraine soldiers are "MIA" Missing In Action or POW to avoid paying families....

[url]https://www.moonofalabama.org/2024/03/ukraine-cookie-monster-retires.html[/url] or https://www.moonofalabama.org/2024/03/ukraine-cookie-monster-retires.html 

A big fat rat is leaving the ship.

One might interpret this as the State Department's admittance of defeat in the U.S. war against Russia in Ukraine:

On the Retirement of Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland - Anthony Blinken / State Department, Mar 5 2024

Victoria Nuland has let me know that she intends to step down in the coming weeks as Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs – a role in which she has personified President Biden’s commitment to put diplomacy back at the center of our foreign policy and revitalize America’s global leadership at a crucial time for our nation and the world.

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Victoria Nuland, a member of the neo-conservative Kagan clan, is only 62 years old - too young to retire regularly.

She will be remembered for handing out cookies to anti-government demonstrators in Ukraine and for installing the 2014 coup regime.

That has been her main project in the State Department. But the 2014 Maidan putsch that turn the Ukraine into a battering ram against Russia, has ended in a complete failure.

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Given that billions were spent on Ukraine with little controls and nothing to show for Nuland, and her family, have certainly made a bit on the side. One wonders if any of the ongoing and coming investigations into the black hole Ukraine will leave them unscarred.

As even Guardian commentators are now waking up to the mess they helped create it is high time for European politicians to also finally accept this reality:

Western Europe has no conceivable interest in escalating the Ukraine war through a long-range missile exchange. While it should sustain its logistical support for Ukrainian forces, it has no strategic interest in Kyiv’s desire to drive Russia out of the majority Russian-speaking areas of Crimea or Donbas. It has every interest in assiduously seeking an early settlement and starting the rebuilding of Ukraine.

As for the west’s “soft power” sanctions on Russia, they have failed miserably, disrupting the global trading economy in the process. Sanctions may be beloved of western diplomats and thinktanks. They may even hurt someone – not least Britain’s energy users – but they have not devastated the Russian economy or changed Putin’s mind. This year Russia’s growth rate is expected to exceed Britain’s.

The crass ineptitude of a quarter of a century of western military interventions should have taught us some lessons. Apparently not.

DJ, victoria nuland stepped down because she did not get a promotion....F..k the EU...well she did....

The resignation of Cookie Nuland is primarily due to the upcoming investigation by the FBI and the Office of Special Operations. investigations of the US Department of Justice, where 10.5 billion dollars were spent on Maidan in Ukraine (the public was told about 5 billion), as well as where 120 billion dollars were spent on open items and almost the same amount on secret items of the budget of the CIA and the Pentagon with 2018. The fourth command inspection from the United States in six months in Kyiv is still working. 

The results of the work and reporting are strictly classified. They are transferred immediately to the Secretary of State under the supervision of the FBI. The fun is just beginning.

link [url]https://twitter.com/GeromanAT/status/1765018448160035108[/url] or https://twitter.com/GeromanAT/status/1765018448160035108 

DJ-I see it as another indication of "the west" dumping Ukraine....

[url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yVXS1P0y0M[/url] or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yVXS1P0y0M Hindustan Times-India;

NATO Nation Humiliates Ukrainian Refugees With 'Get Out Now' Ultimatum

The Dutch government is planning to deport Ukrainian war refugees from the Netherlands. Thousands of Ukrainians took refuge in the Netherlands after Russia invaded Ukraine. The Dutch government's plan to deport Ukrainian refugees has sparked protests across the nation. Many Ukrainian students & young workers staged protests in the Netherlands, accusing the government of 'discrimination'. Why is the Dutch government planning to expel Ukrainian war refugees?

DJ, NL is planning to expel refugees from Ukraine that are NOT Ukraine citizens...come from a "third country" (In Dutch they are called "derde-landers"). People that studied or worked in Ukraine february 2022 and did get into the EU-but neither EU or Ukraine pasport holders...

DJ-It may be this group can find a safe place in another EU country ? I believe over 60% of Ukraine refugees in NL have jobs now...may have to pay for their stay in NL...

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Genocide is nothing new to humankind. But to commit genocide live, to brag about it, to look the population in the eye, to ask everyone not to "lecture us" and still enjoy Western support without accountability is unheard of.

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Leaked audio from Israeli media shows 2 Israeli hostages crying out for the IDF to save them and not kill them, but the IDF still killed them anyway #HannibalDirective

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Under the guise of cracking down on extremism the government, supported by the opposition, will continue to undermine British liberty and democracy as it has since the wars on Afghanistan and Iraq. Imperialism can only facilitate its ongoing wars and looting if it can destroy resistance at home.

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[url]https://english.alarabiya.net/News/middle-east/2024/03/01/Palestinian-factions-meeting-in-Russia-s-Moscow-agree-to-continue-push-for-unity-[/url] or https://english.alarabiya.net/News/middle-east/2024/03/01/Palestinian-factions-meeting-in-Russia-s-Moscow-agree-to-continue-push-for-unity- 

Palestinian factions including rivals Hamas and Fatah said on Friday they would pursue “unity of action” in confronting Israel after representatives met at Russia-hosted talks.

The meeting in Moscow on Thursday brought together Hamas, Islamic Jihad, Fatah and other Palestinian groups for talks on the war in Gaza and an eventual post-war period.

It came on the heels of the resignation of the Palestinian Authority government, which is led by Fatah and based in the occupied West Bank.

DJ, the "west" did break up the PLO into fractions...no doubt BRICS (Russia, Iran, Arab countries)  will welcome a "Palestinian unity"...(under some control of BRICS+)

[url]https://twitter.com/caitoz/status/1764796639708143897[/url] or https://twitter.com/caitoz/status/1764796639708143897 ;

"Pay no attention to that genocide right in front of your face." 

That's the constant message we're getting from the dominant institutions in this present-day dystopia. From our news media. From our political parties. From our government. From our mainstream culture of diversion and superficiality. 

"Pay no attention to that genocide right in front of your face." 

We can see it happening. It's right there. And they know we can see it happening. But they're telling us to ignore it anyway. Pay attention to this other far less urgent news story instead. Pay attention to what a big meany Donald Trump is. Pay attention to Hamas and October 7 2023. Pay attention to this trend, this TV show, this funny video, this celebrity, this product, this event. Pay attention to anything other than the horror you can see unfolding with your own two eyes right this very moment.

 "Pay no attention to that genocide right in front of your face." 

And most are obeying this command. Society's still puttering along like everything's fine and normal.  The shows, events, social engagements and small talk is all still happening in more or less the same way it was happening on October 6 2023. Attention is going everywhere but to the screaming, hemorrhaging elephant in the room. 

"Pay no attention to that genocide right in front of your face." 

It's an insult to our intelligence. It's an insult to our hearts. It's an insult to our humanity. They're sticking their long, rapey fingers into our minds and commanding us to twist and turn our attention in every direction except where it is most urgently needed, and most of us are submitting to their will and doing as they command. We're putting on a degrading and dehumanizing performance for our rulers to show how far into knots we will contort our minds, our perception and our sense of reality for their convenience. 

"Pay no attention to that genocide right in front of your face." 

Refusing to obey this command is a daily act of defiance. It's an act of protest each and every moment we refuse to acquiesce to this demand. In each instant we hold our gaze on Gaza and remind others to do the same, we are defying the orders of our rulers. We are disobeying the instructions from the propaganda machine. We are being directly insubordinate to our politicians and our government, and we are disrespecting the plastic smileyface dystopia they supervise. 

"Pay no attention to that genocide right in front of your face." 

Yeah I'm gonna keep paying attention to that genocide, actually, and I'm going to keep working to get others to do the same. No matter how much you try to turn my gaze away. No matter how ugly your atrocities become. No matter what names you call me or what accusations you level at me. It's right there. We can all see it. I refuse to play along with this demented charade. Israel is committing genocide, our western governments are helping them, the sky is blue, a spade's a spade, and the emperor has no clothes.

DJ...if "western leaders" support mass murders in Ukraine, Palestine...after Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, Yemen mass murders....

High time for change...or will we wait till the genocide reaches our towns, our streets, our homes....

STOP NAZI-NATO NOW !!!

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[url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PivWY9wn5ps[/url] or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PivWY9wn5ps Man in the mirror - Michael Jackson

Because "blind capitalism" does not only need war...it also needs blind consumerism...The "only measure of success"  is a fat car, a fat house, a fat bank account...who pays? 

The "only value a human has" in the present system-is to be a good consumer...

Profitability above durability even if we kill ourselves at the end...

DJ-In the nuclear age pacifism is the ONLY rational idea in international relations...If you open the door for war to get your way...you will open the door to nuclear war...ending us all...Stop war before it stops us...

I am very happy without the newest i-phone, (e)-car or even sneakers, jeans, haircut...I LOVE simple live !

And yes-in the present system- I am an outsider....

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Judge Napolitano/JN/AC [url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZ4CoCT9ufE[/url] or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZ4CoCT9ufE ;

Alastair Crooke: Warning Signs - "Untenable Positions"

DJ, AC/JN talk about elections;

US-Michigan-over 100.000 democratic voters vote AGAINST biden...

UK-George Galloway slapping UK new-labour-liberal-conservative uni-party in the face....

"israel"....three directions; right, extreme right and ultra-right winning local elections...

DJ In Germany BSW did get enough votes to be on the ballot for European elections [url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%BCndnis_Sahra_Wagenknecht_-_Vernunft_und_Gerechtigkeit[/url] or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%BCndnis_Sahra_Wagenknecht_-_Vernunft_und_Gerechtigkeit 

In France political parties unite against macron-napoleon planning a new invasion of Russia...(1812 was a disater [url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_invasion_of_Russia[/url] or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_invasion_of_Russia ...the end of Napoleon). 

"israel" [url]https://peacenow.org.il/en/about-us/who-are-we[/url] or https://peacenow.org.il/en/about-us/who-are-we ,








My piece in  about how   the failure of the IDF’s Targeting protocols Is producing massive civilian casualties in Gaza

DJ, there ARE critical voices in "israel"....The peacemovement, [url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Histadrut[/url] or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Histadrut trade union fighting against a "new normal" of hate...

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DJ-If "western leaders" support neo-nazi's in Ukraine, enable genocide in Palestine...after creating IS, [url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Qaeda[/url] or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Qaeda  see western citizens do NOT support those crimes...

[url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bologna_massacre#Investigation[/url] or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bologna_massacre#Investigation will "intel" start a terror campain, blaming extremists (right/left wing, Islam, enviromentalists/XR ?) 

UK-PM "warning for extremism" because most UK voters are disgusted by the "uni-party"  should be a clear warning....

Under-cover police actions to infiltrate and stop terrorism -in the past- may have resulted in "secret police" running terrorism...[url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conspiracy_theories_about_the_kidnapping_and_murder_of_Aldo_Moro[/url] or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conspiracy_theories_about_the_kidnapping_and_murder_of_Aldo_Moro ...The "Red Brigades" may have been a way to stop the Communist Party in Italy to gain power...

DJ-One very strong argument against violence/terrorism...the "state" is better in that...Another reason to be against terrorism (besides it being a crime...you should not want to go that way...[url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Rule[/url] or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Rule ) is "terrorists" can be used for political goals...

"Terrorism" may bring "activists" further away from where they want to go....Blocking railways to stop (nuclear/weapons etc) transport is NOT terrorism...blowing up the railway is...

[url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Blow_Up_a_Pipeline_(film)[/url] or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Blow_Up_a_Pipeline_(film) 

DJ-My view; the BEST weapon is information...

Yes-there is a risk of "ending up talking to yourself"...but when you look into the mirror you still may be able to live with yourself...

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[url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7O_biKd3vgs[/url] or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7O_biKd3vgs MS;

The Bloom | Russian Long-Range Superiority | Novomykhailivka Has Fallen. Military Summary 2024.03.05

DJ, MS "loves to save the best (info) to the last (moment) from 22.50

-Ukraine generals losing their positions with zalushny would have "switched sides"...some even managed to get their families into Russia. MS thinks a lot of high rank military in Ukraine do see this war as destroying Ukraine for western interests...(DJ-Also former Ukraine politicians -"moderate nationalists" share that view...Russia may gather enough Ukraine intelligentia to form a new Ukraine government.)

-US "washington post" finally asking questions on why the west is paying the saleries of 700,000 Ukraine soldiers "that are missing"...MS reminded of Afghanistan 300,000 army...on paper...bringing in a lot of corruption money from the west...

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NYT: Russian smart bombs hack Ukrainian defenses 

As the Russian military advances, its air force is beginning to play an increasingly important role, The New York Times reports. Military analysts say Russia is increasingly using warplanes near the front line to drop powerful guided bombs on Ukrainian positions and clear the way for infantry. 

As the newspaper writes, citing Ukrainian analysts, such tactics have their price: Russian planes are forced to fly closer to the front line, which exposes them to the risk of attack from Ukrainian air defense. 

However, according to experts, the use of powerful gliding bombs gave good results during the assault on Avdiivka. “These bombs completely destroy any position,” admitted Yegor Sugar, a Ukrainian soldier who fought in Avdiivka, on social networks. “All buildings and structures simply turn into a pit after the arrival of at least one.”

DJ, another western propaganda outlet admitting Ukraine has (and had !!!) no chance !  STOP THIS WAR NOW !!!

The ONLY reason the Ukraine war still goes on is "the west" keep pushing for it....A Russian victory would bring Ukraine natural resources (from grain to lithium) under Russian/BRICS+ control...

DJ, countries like Egypt, Ethiopia, India -all in BRICS+ welcome the grain/food at "reasonable prices" (outside of a "world market -maximum profit system...If you can not pay for profits you starve..."western civilization" norms...) 

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“Israel has been intentionally starving the Palestinian people in Gaza since 8 October. Now it is targeting civilians seeking humanitarian aid and humanitarian convoys. Israel must end its campaign of starvation and targeting of civilians.” -- UN experts. https://ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2024/03/un-experts-condemn-flour-massacre-urge-israel-end-campaign-starvation-gaza

-DJ UN not only saying that for the Palestinians...but for humanity ! What kind of world, morality do we have, do we defend, if we accept -in 2024- a slow mass murder on millions of Palestinians "as self defense"

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From ‘groupthink’ to ‘killology’: The Ethical and Psychological Dimensions of Warfare in Gaza – Elijah J. Magnier 

[url]https://ejmagnier.com/2024/03/05/from-groupthink-to-killology-the-ethical-and-psychological-dimensions-of-warfare-in-gaza/[/url] or https://ejmagnier.com/2024/03/05/from-groupthink-to-killology-the-ethical-and-psychological-dimensions-of-warfare-in-gaza/ ;

However, recent events in Gaza over the past five months or so are making history and forcing a severe and strategic reassessment. This reassessment is driven by the observed excessive brutality of the Israeli military and its apparent struggle against the tenacity of the Palestinian resistance in Gaza. This is in the face of the widespread devastation and the significant toll that the Israeli war machine has taken on Palestinian society. The question arises: What makes such a “strong” army, despite its numerical and technological superiority and the support of superpower countries, resort to such excessive brutality? Is it simply to serve as a deterrent to those who might consider aggression against Israel in the future?

DJ some stories on training for SS-criminals in nazi-Germany...A person gets a dog at the start of the training, feeds ducks in a nearby park...at the end of the training he has to kill the dog -by order...eat the ducks...De-human-ization...making people into robots only following orders...

There are several kinds of war crimes; Top of the list are leaders proviking/spreading wars...they often simply get away with it...The soldier at the frontline in impossible situations...Jewish settlers kicking Palestinians out of their houses...with a "legal/state" system claiming that is okay...Evil has many faces...

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(Tech error) JFK on secrecy, secret wars, 

[url]https://twitter.com/mohammedakunjee/status/1765196139953844311[/url] or https://twitter.com/mohammedakunjee/status/1765196139953844311 ;




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[url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgFT_kr19v0[/url] or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgFT_kr19v0 MS;

The Bloom | Zelensky Got Iskander Warning | Escalation In The Black Sea. Military Summary 2024.03.06

DJ, zelensky visited Odessa to give military medals...Russia followed his group of cars...Did blow up the hangar with sea-drone specialists with missiles...Very likely also killing/wounding NATO -most UK- military. 

A NATO AWACS-with 2 RAF fighter jets flew over the Black Sea to see if Russia was preparing more missile strikes-NATO evacuating its military from the hit hangar to Romania...

DJ-NATO-as an organization-is NOT at war with Russia/BRICS+ ...however NATO members -most of them- are working together to "stop Russian agression" so NATO can move east...(From a western perspective NATO moving east is NOT agression...most other countries do see NATO as very agressive...). 

[url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZhVW9uPLyc[/url] or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZhVW9uPLyc CRUX-India;

"Biden, Send More Abrams to Ukraine" Russian Soldiers Mock US Tanks After Three Kills in a Week

Russia said its troops used the Upyr FPV drones to hit the third Ukrainian US-made Abrams tank near Avdiivka in a week. Russia says the first Abrams was completely destroyed with the use of FPV drone Piranya on February 26 near the village of Berdychi. The second Abrams was also struck by a drone but its crew managed to get out, as per TASS. Russian officials said the US tanks can easily be hit not only by artillery but by FPV drones as well. 

Meanwhile, Moscow-appointed officials claim that the US tanks were ineffective in Ukraine because they had been stripped of all sensitive technologies. 

DJ, Russia using 550 US$ drones to destroy -now also- US tanks...[url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M1_Abrams[/url] or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M1_Abrams ;

Unit costM1A1: $4.3 million (domestic cost, FY1989) (~$10.66 million, FY2023)[3]
M1A2 SEP v3: $24 million (export cost, FY2022)[4]

DJ....YOU PAY !!!!!

The CRUX video also mentions either western weapons stripped from high tech -to avoid it falling in the wrong hands (because some Ukrainian may sell it...) OR

MLRS/HIMARS etc. is used/in control of "western instructors/advisors/volunteers"....

.....again...NATO as an organization is NOT at war with Russia. Most NATO members are -in fact- very involved in fighting Russia. Most -but not all- of western military action is taking place in (former) Ukraine...Crimea/Donetsk etc can be seen as "disputed area's"....

[url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-cr1RivlWg[/url] or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-cr1RivlWg The Duran;

Fanatics and fools. Crimea bridge obsession

DJ, A German general -using the Singapore hotel WiFi- very likely China could listen in- discussed with other German high rank on how/where to use the German Taurus cruise missile  [url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taurus_KEPD_350[/url] or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taurus_KEPD_350 ; In interviews in June and July 2023, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Minister of Defense Boris Pistorius said that Germany would not supply Ukraine with long-range missiles.[17][18][19] In January 2024, the German Bundestag voted against the supply of the Taurus missile to Ukraine.[20] In February 2024, the German Bundestag and Chancellor Olaf Scholz again expressly refused Ukraine's request while agreeing to deliver longer range weapons.[21][22]

DJ...Pistorius wants to replace scholz as German "PM"...going behind scholz and German parliament...it could be Germany already did send some cruise missiles (+ advisors) to Ukraine..."Successful usage of this weapon would be good for bussinesses..."....

.....of course all of this has NOTHING !!!! to do with (defending) democracy....

[url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Is_a_Racket[/url] or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Is_a_Racket ;

In War Is a Racket, Butler points to a variety of examples, mostly from World War I, where industrialists, whose operations were subsidized by public funding, were able to generate substantial profits, making money from mass human suffering.

DJ...[url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerontocracy[/url] or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerontocracy ; gerontocracy is a form of oligarchical rule in which an entity is ruled by leaders who are significantly older than most of the adult population.

In many political structures, power within the ruling class accumulates with age, making the oldest individuals the holders of the most power. Those holding the most power may not be in formal leadership positions, but often dominate those who are. In a simplified definition, a gerontocracy is a society where leadership is reserved for elders

The observation of gerontocracy in the United States has been connected to broader themes of American decline

is western "democracy democrazy" ?????

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DJ, Maybe a few basic ideas;

-If your enemy is destroying itself-do not stop it....

-Any conflict in its basics is an economic conflict....

Translation; 

-In the Ukraine war the west is destroying itself in so many ways...Russia may see hardly any need to end the war...YES-Russia does want to stop seeing its soldiers killed...on a "bad day" more WESTERN !!!! soldiers may be dying in Ukraine then Russian soldiers...

-Not only Ukraine is running out of weapons, soldiers, money...most of the west is running out of means for (non-nuclear) major war

-from that perspective China may be even financing the Russian military because it decreases a western role in the Chinese conflicts....

[url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQL3SjMpPLE[/url] or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQL3SjMpPLE The Duran;

Ukraine clutching at straws, as exhaustion sets in

DJ, A possible scenario may have been exhausting the Ukraine army to see some sort of coup...Then NATO moved in...providing for hundreds of billions "help" to continue the killing...

Ukraine may be now close to 600,000 soldiers killed !!! (Thanks for that genocide-joe/nazi-nato !) 

Still "western leaders" based on their "intel" -that is based on Ukraine propaganda to get money/bribes- keep funding/fighting the war....

During the "cold war" NATO and Warsaw-pact did NOT attack eachothers territory...now NATO (members) are sending drones to St. Petersburg, Moscow, Belgorod to kill Russian civilians....

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Maybe another aspect of this "Ocean of insanity"...The costs of ONE !!! western tank very likely would give 50 western teachers one year good pay...A western cruise missile would pay for a school, hospital ward....

Most western citizens are -by now- completely fed up by war-mongering political idiots...One problem is "politics" by self-selection is full of war-mongering idiots...DJ-I do NOT feel represented by ANY !!! party in NL parliament...even the "progressive parties" are not against these wars....Out of fear to be called "pro-Putin/supporting terrorism"....

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West Asia has been in wars for over a decade...The Ukraine conflict started after the 2014 western coup but "escalated" when Russia moved in to stop a nazi-genocide on ethnic Russians...

In a "normal year" "israel" kills hundreds of Palestinians...now they kill tens-of-thousends..."israel" has been attacking Iran targets in Lebanon, Syria, Iraq for over a decade...

The Yemen and Syria "civil/regime change" wars are over a decade old....

Why do regional "partners" not stop the genocide on Palestinians ? One reason may be this genocide may destroy "israel"....

BRICS+ is growing because of western agression...that western agression may have had the goal to STOP BRICS+, to save the US$...it -like western sanctions- did the opposite...

BRICS+  maybe main point is trade in their local currencies...NOT fighting western ones...however the outcome is the west is getting weaker since western dominance needed global trade in US$....The US did invest a lot in NATO to keep Europe supporting the US$ position in international trade...

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So...will there be an end soon to wars ? Why ? The western made wars are making most non-western countries stronger....

Western idiot leaders still are unable to see they are destroying the west...

[url]https://www.dutchnews.nl/2024/03/dutch-economy-limped-past-e1-trillion-milestone-in-2023-cbs/[/url] or https://www.dutchnews.nl/2024/03/dutch-economy-limped-past-e1-trillion-milestone-in-2023-cbs/ ;

Dutch GDP passed the €1 trillion mark in 2023, despite minimal growth, making the Netherlands the 18th largest economy in the world.

The economy put on €74 billion to reach €1.03 trillion, according to figures published by the statistics agency CBS. But when adjusted for inflation that translates into an increase of just 0.1%.

The Netherlands emerged from a nine-month recession in the fourth quarter of 2023, when it grew by 0.3%. The economic planning agency CPB expects growth of 1.1% in 2024 and 1.6% next year.

The Dutch economy has tripled in value in the last 30 years and passed the half-trillion mark in 2002, the CBS said. GDP has shrunk just twice in that period in nominal terms, during the financial crisis of 2009 and the coronavirus pandemic of 2020.

In global terms the Netherlands ranks 18th, just behind Turkey and ahead of Saudi Arabia and Switzerland. The United States is the largest, followed by China and Germany, while France and Italy are also in the top 10.

The Dutch economy is the fifth largest in the EU, after Spain. Altogether 19 countries have a GDP larger than US$1 trillion.

DJ, main reason for "economic growth" is inflation....Statistics are a great way to lie...NL Supermarkets grew in financial transactions because prices went up...they did sell LESS products at higher prices....

Western "economic dominance" is based on GDP-statistics...when one goes for GDP-PPP ...what money can buy the picture is changing...Russia has become the largest economy in Europe, China the #1 -GDP-PPP in the world...Russia-China trade is booming...

Of course...another way of "hiding" is translating GDP to US$ or £, €...BRICS+ is the major economic block-larger than the western G7....

western wars and playing with statistics only make matters worse for "the west"...

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Let's be clear: the Israeli government's only interest is to continue and perpetuate the occupation. Instead of planning a future of peace and security for us, they are paving the way for our destruction.

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Last year was the most challenging year for the prospects of a political resolution between Israelis and Palestinians. For the settlement enterprise, it was probably the best year in history. A good year for settlements means a bad year for everyone.

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#Israel said that (the stolen Palestinian) gas supplies to #Egypt and #Jordan rose by about 25%, despite brief disruptions at the start of the war in #Gaza, adding that exports could be expanded further.

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#Israel wants the war to spread to #Lebanon#Syria#Iraq#Iran and #Yemen, to bring the #US into the war and to keep  in power as long as possible. Basically he is creating an 'incendium magnum Romae' and wants to burn everything, including Israel.

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[url]https://ejmagnier.com/2024/03/06/a-fragile-balance-amos-hochsteins-role-in-the-lebanese-israeli-equation/[/url] or https://ejmagnier.com/2024/03/06/a-fragile-balance-amos-hochsteins-role-in-the-lebanese-israeli-equation/ ;

Amos Hochstein, the American mediator, was born to Jewish parents and comes from an Israeli family. He served in the Israeli military and advised Prime Minister Shimon Peres. His career took him to the US State Department, where he has worked since 2011. His appointment by President Joe Biden as Special Envoy for Infrastructure and Energy Security marks a significant milestone in his career.

Hochstein’s role and impact

The selection of Amos Hochstein as the President’s Special Envoy for Negotiations with Lebanon is seen by directly involved sources as an American act of provocation and arrogance towards Middle Eastern nations that reject normalisation, particularly Lebanon. The appointment of a former Israeli officer for such negotiations is seen as a clear indication of the United States’ overt favouritism towards Israel, disregarding Lebanese perspectives that see Israel as an adversary and an unrecognised entity.

Moreover, Hochstein, who was instrumental in establishing the maritime demarcation between Lebanon and Israel, also sought to protect Israeli energy infrastructure from potential Hezbollah attacks. These energy platforms are vital for supplying gas to neighbouring countries such as Jordan and Egypt, and potentially to Europe, positioning Israel as a secure and reliable hub. This strategy dovetails with President Biden’s announcement before 7 October of a project to create an alternative route to the Chinese Silk Road, stretching from India through Saudi Arabia and Israel to Greece.

DJ, part of the war is "israel" stealing energy in front of the coast of Gaza and southern Lebanon-as part of a US strategy to provide the west with non-BRICS+ energy....

The child-killer, bully and arrogant has no shame. #Israel: "If the  doesn't activate article 9 in our favour, we should close the UN office in Jerusalem and expel its officials". Article 9: "The Secretary-General may bring to the attention of the Security Council any matter which in his opinion may threaten the maintenance of international peace and security." Formal invocation of the Article has occurred only three times in the first half century, in the Congo (1960), Iran (1979) and Lebanon (1989).

DJ, mass murder is "self defense" for "the west"....








#BREAKING🚨🚨🚨 At Least 3 Sailors Missing, 4 Critically Wounded following Houthi Anti-Ship Ballistic Missile on Barbados-Flagged, US- Owned Cargo Ship - M/V True Confidence - which is Currently Sinking: US Officials 

DJ...NATO "secured the Red Sea" well ...they did not....








The occupied West Bank is not Gaza. They are not ‘fighting Hamas’ here. This is part of a wider programme of ethnically cleansing Palestinians from their own lands, which pre-dates the Gaza genocide by several decades. It’s all the same picture.

DJ, "greater israel" could be in "western interest"....control over West Asia by NATO...

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[url]https://www.dutchnews.nl/2024/03/israeli-president-at-opening-of-amsterdam-holocaust-museum/[/url] or https://www.dutchnews.nl/2024/03/israeli-president-at-opening-of-amsterdam-holocaust-museum/ ;

Israel’s president Yitzhak Herzog will be at the opening of the National Holocaust museum in Amsterdam this weekend, alongside king Willem-Alexander, who will perform the opening ceremony on Sunday, the organisation has confirmed. 

Herzog’s visit, part of a two-day trip to the Netherlands, had been kept secret for security reasons but leaked out via an Israeli news site Ynet this week. 

“Herzog first of all represents the homeland of the many Dutch Holocaust survivors who emigrated to Israel after World War II to build a new future,” the museum said in a statement. “He also represents fellow Israeli institutions at the National Holocaust Museum, with whom knowledge is shared and who made documents, photos and video material available.”

The museum went on to say it is “bitter” that the museum is being opened while the war in Israel and Gaza is ongoing. “However, we expect a dignified ceremony that will do justice to the significant national and international importance of our museum,” the statement said.

Prime minister Mark Rutte, Austrian chancellor Alexander Van der Bellen and the chairwoman of the German Bundesrat, or federal council, Manuela Schwesig will also attend the ceremony. Both Austria and Germany have paid towards the cost of the museum. 

According to Ynet, Herzog will speak during the opening ceremony and will also hold talks with Rutte, a meeting which will include relatives of the families of Israelis kidnapped by Hamas on October 7 last year.

Palestinian rights group The Rights Forum has described Herzog’s attendance and meeting with the king as a “slap in the face for Palestinians who are watching helplessly as Israel murders their loved ones and destroys their country”.

See also [url]https://jck.nl/en/press/persberichten/koning-opent-nationaal-holocaustmuseum[/url] or https://jck.nl/en/press/persberichten/koning-opent-nationaal-holocaustmuseum 

DJ-It is good there is a museum to remember the holocaust. It may be "difficult" not to have somewhat of "a link" with zionism ("israel"). 

However Erev Rav -a Jewish group- will be with the protesters outside protesting AGAINST zionism/israel....

A lot of Jewish people do NOT want to be linked -never wanted- with "israel/zionism"....

[url]https://www.dutchnews.nl/2024/03/justice-minister-set-to-ban-headscarf-for-council-wardens-by-law/[/url] or https://www.dutchnews.nl/2024/03/justice-minister-set-to-ban-headscarf-for-council-wardens-by-law/

Several local councils, including Arnhem, Tilburg and most recently Amsterdam, have said they regard the wearing of religious symbols as part of the freedom of religion and that it promotes integration.

Yesilgöz, who has the support of a majority of MPs and the wardens’ union, said dialogue with the local councils had come to nothing. “We will have to solve this in another way,” she told current affairs programme EenVandaag.

DJ, The  (neo-liberal vvd) minister of justice in NL has a Kurdish background and is married with a zionist Jew. The neo-liberal party did see claims to be anti-Islam. 

[url]https://nltimes.nl/2024/01/14/pegida-leader-three-police-officers-hurt-quran-burning-protest-arnhem[/url] or https://nltimes.nl/2024/01/14/pegida-leader-three-police-officers-hurt-quran-burning-protest-arnhem ;

Edwin Wagensveld, the head of the Dutch branch of anti-Islam organization Pegida, was injured during a demonstration in Arnhem where he wanted to burn a copy of the Quran. Despite the intervention of the riot police, counter-demonstrators managed to attack him. Three police officers also suffered injuries, Mayor Ahmed Marcouch told ANP. He said the police were assaulted, and pelted with fireworks and rocks.

DJ, I am against burning books....for freedom of religion...But it may be getting harder here in NL because of the Gaza-genocide...

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DJ, On "israel";

[url]https://peacenow.org.il/en/about-us/vision[/url] or https://peacenow.org.il/en/about-us/vision ;

Peace Now is a movement of Israeli citizens who see the pursuit of peace, compromise and reconciliation with the Palestinians on the one hand and with the Arab states on the other, as necessary to guarantee Israel’s future security and its identity as a state.

Peace Now states that the continued military and civilian control of the West Bank and over three million Palestinians that reside within it, jeopardizes the fundamental existence and the democratic character of Israel as the state of the Jewish people.

Peace Now is an extra-parliamentary movement, seeking to promote its values and goals both to the Israeli public’s consciousness and to its representatives at the Knesset (Israel’s parliament) in order to implement a long-lasting solution between Israel and the Palestinians.

The Movement’s Positions:

• Two states for two peoples – Israel and Palestine, based on the borders of June 1967, and including mutually agreed-upon land swaps.

•Israel was established as a Jewish and Democratic state, based on the principle that citizens should not be discriminated against due to religion, race, gender, or any other reason. Peace Now supports the establishment of a Palestinian state as a means of strengthening Israel’s Jewish and Democratic values.

• Jerusalem – two capitals for two states: a solution based on the demographic distribution and a special international agreement in the Old City.

• The Settlements damage Israel’s international image. They pose an existential threat to Israel’s future as a Jewish and democratic state, as they are a major obstacle to any future peace agreement.

DJ, The "Peace-Now" movement inside "israel" could have helped finding a way out of the conflict. 

Should there be a "Jewish State" ? My view; NO !!! A "Jewish State"is NOT the right answer to the holocaust as an outcome of anti-semitism in "Europe".  "We" should have done much more to stop anti-semitism....Freedom of religion should not have been used to "promote" the idea "Jews killed Jesus"....Creating a "Jewish State" outside Europe is "an easy way out" for Europe...

During the 1939-45 nazi's did steal homes/goods from "Jews" so after 1945 "Jews" could steal homes/goods/land from Palestinians ? 

[url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who_is_a_Jew%3F[/url] or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who_is_a_Jew%3F ;

"Who is a Jew?" (Hebrewמיהו יהודי pronounced [ˈmi(h)u je(h)uˈdi]) is a basic question about Jewish identity and considerations of Jewish self-identification. The question pertains to ideas about Jewish personhood, which have culturalethnicreligiouspoliticalgenealogical, and personal dimensions. Orthodox Judaism and Conservative Judaism follow Jewish law (Halakha), deeming people to be Jewish if their mothers are Jewish or if they underwent a halakhic conversionReform Judaism and Reconstructionist Judaism accept both matrilineal and patrilineal descent as well as conversion. Karaite Judaism predominantly follows patrilineal descent as well as conversion.

Jewish identity is also commonly defined through ethnicity. Opinion polls have suggested that the majority of modern Jews see being Jewish as predominantly a matter of ancestry and culture, rather than religion.[1][2]

There is controversy over "Who is a Jew?" in Israel, as it affects citizenship and personal status issues like marriage. Israel's Law of Return grants citizenship to those with a Jewish parent or grandparent, even if not religious. But the rabbinical courts use halakhic rules for marriage, requiring Orthodox conversions for those without a Jewish mother. This creates conflicts between different branches of Judaism.

The Nazis defined Jews based on ancestry and persecuted them on a racial basis. Anti-Semites have also defined Jews for discriminatory goals. But Jews themselves have varying self-definitions, ranging from religious observance to secular ethnic identity. There is no consensus, but common themes emphasize ancestry, culture, and community belonging, even for secular Jews and converts to other religions.

DJ, So how can one create a "Jewish State" ????

Another question is-can there be an "israel" ? After 1945 lots of former colonies did get forms of "self rule". Trans-Jordan/Palestine could have been split up in an eastern part "Jordan" and a western part "israel"...with in the western-bordering the sea-part more room for immigration. 

[url]https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2012/12/18/global-religious-landscape-jew/[/url] or https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2012/12/18/global-religious-landscape-jew/ ;

There are about 14 million Jews around the world, representing 0.2% of the global population. This estimate is based on the number of people who self-identify as Jewish when asked about their religion on national censuses and large-scale surveys. However, the worldwide figure could be larger if a broader definition (such as having a Jewish grandparent) or smaller if a tighter definition (such as an unbroken line of matrilineal Jewish descent) were imposed

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Geographically, Jews are concentrated primarily in North America (44%) and the Middle East- North Africa region (41%). The remainder of the global Jewish population is found in Europe (10%), Latin America and the Caribbean (3%), Asia and the Pacific (between 1% and 2%) and sub-Saharan Africa (less than 1%).

Jews make up roughly 2% of the total population in North America and a similar proportion in the Middle East-North Africa region. In the remaining regions, they comprise less than 1% of the overall population.

While Jews historically have been found all around the globe, Judaism is highly geographically concentrated today. More than four-fifths of all Jews live in just two countries, the United States (41%) and Israel (41%). The largest remaining shares of the global Jewish population are in Canada (about 3%), France (2%), the United Kingdom (2%), Germany (2%), Russia (2%) and Argentina (between 1% and 2%).

Israel is the only country with a Jewish majority (76%).

DJ...so most people identifying themselves as "Jewish" do NOT live in "israel"....The only way "israel" can get a 76% "Jewish" population is by excluding the occupied area's. 

Also non-Jewish foreign workers can not become "israel"citizen very easy....

-In short my view;

-"israel is a zionist state-not a Jewish one"

-"israel" is the wrong answer to anti-semitism problem mainly in Europe

-"israel" is being used to keep western energy interests safe in the MENA-region (Middle East North Africa)

A "two state solution" is NOT solving the problem. A country with room for Arabs/Palestinians, Jews, Christians etc. may offer more perspective. 

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🇺🇦🇮🇱 Ukrainian mercenaries join the IDF in the war on Gaza

DJ, So again,,,the Ukraine and Palestine wars are part of a NATO war to stop BRICS+

[url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29RiVgKEqsA[/url] or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29RiVgKEqsA MS;

NATO Expansion | Kharkiv Offensive Is About To Start. Military Summary For 2024.03.07

DJ, Sweden now #32 NATO-member...so the Baltic Sea is under NATO control with an international searoute to Russian ports (St.Petersburg, Kaliningrad)

NATO excersises NW of Norway to show NATO also in Arctic waters "limiting Russia/BRICS+"

Macron/France signing an agreement on Moldova security...DJ-Will NATO soon move into Moldova/Moldova join NATO ? Russia planning to move to Odessa?

On the NE Russian-Ukraine border Ukraine started evacuations-expecting a major Russian offensive from the north

-In general, risks for both new major wars and nuclear conflict(s) keep increasing...The "US/west" may welcome a nuclear war between India-Pakistan-China. Such a war would "blow up" BRICS+ and "save the US$"....


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[url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_mlKwV3i4o[/url] or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_mlKwV3i4o MS;

Operational Pause Has Ended | Russians Restart Huge Assaults. Military Summary 2024.03.8

DJ, Most "news" may be after minute 18;

-Ukraine citizens attacking recruiters kidnapping men to die on a front

-On the Romanian border 34 men are pushed out of a truck and beaten up by "recruiters"

-zelensky visiting a Turkish shipyard to see to the construction of ships for the Ukraine navy

-zelensky will meet Erdogan today...lots of stories on some sort of indirect peacetalks...(zelensky visited Saudi Arabia shortly after a Russian delegation went there-last week0

-MS wondering why Ukraine people do not stand up against zelensky & co (=NATO) terror

Before minute 18 MS describing Russian progress all over the frontline inside Ukraine...US/UK "warning" for terrorism inside Russia this weekend...DJ-Did the CIA/MI6 send in "moderate IS terrorists" or managed to get moderate neo-nazi's inside Russia ? 

A possible scenario can be NATO sinking to terrorism inside Russia to "beat Putin" and defend the US$...

[url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0AhzYgGUX8[/url] or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0AhzYgGUX8 Hindustan Times - India;

'Destroyed In One Shot': Russia Knocks Out Another American Abrams; Proves 'Tin Can' Claim 'Right'

DJ, western high tech weapons are made for urban fighting in an integrated fight...problem however is most battlefields are not suited for that kind of warfare...The theory may be very clever however practice is completely different...

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[url]https://ejmagnier.com/2024/03/08/bidens-humanitarian-aid-or-a-strategic-blockade-unpacking-the-gaza-pier-proposal/[/url] or https://ejmagnier.com/2024/03/08/bidens-humanitarian-aid-or-a-strategic-blockade-unpacking-the-gaza-pier-proposal/ ;

President Joe Biden has unveiled the beginnings of a plan that, on the surface, appears to be driven by humanitarian concerns. 

However, this seemingly benevolent strategy has the dual objective of securing Israel and crushing the Palestinian resistance in the aftermath of the Gaza conflict. 

This approach sets the stage, perhaps inadvertently, for the closure of most land crossings, particularly Rafah from Egypt into Gaza. 

The intention behind this manoeuvre is to thwart the clandestine transport of weapons and components critical to the Palestinians’ ability to manufacture their rockets and resist the occupation. 

The overall aim is to strengthen Israel’s national security and crush the Palestinians.

DJ, The US is making the Gaza genocide possible...so ...the US now sending aid may be a way to get US troops involved...

#Jerusalem ("#UruShalem", or the city "Founded by" Canaanite god Shalem) is 5000 yrs old. Jerusalem is a component of this last crisis & reminds us that a land which did not belong to 1 single people/religion in its history must be shared. Check my piece: https://haaretz.com/opinion/2014-11-19/ty-article/.premium/is-it-too-late-to-defuse-an-intifada-in-jerusalem/0000017f-f477-ddde-abff-fc779fde0000

link [url]https://twitter.com/lorenzokamel/status/1718533008016191735/photo/1[/url] or https://twitter.com/lorenzokamel/status/1718533008016191735/photo/1 Egypt, Babylon, Persia, the Romans all did rule "Jerusalem" some time in the last 5,000 years...

DJ-AGAIN; There may NOT be a justification for a "Jewish" state in West Asia. Since the rise of Islam it has been under Muslim control most of the last 1500 years...

Creation of "israel" in the oil-rich Middle East was a way to get a western grip on oil and gas in the region...with a religious "cover"...

[url]https://twitter.com/caitoz/status/1766295835699233252[/url] or https://twitter.com/caitoz/status/1766295835699233252 ;

(Democrats love babbling about how “heartbreaking” Gaza is. It’s their favorite thing to do. They love nothing more than to weep publicly over the death and starvation and unfathomable human suffering they themselves are directly responsible for, as though it’s some kind of natural disaster and not a US-backed genocide that is only happening because this Democrat-run administration actively facilitates it.) 


We don’t talk enough about how horrifyingly evil it is that the actual, stated position of Israel and its immensely powerful allies is that all of the killing and starvation of Palestinian civilians in Gaza is entirely the fault of Hamas, because Hamas has not acquiesced to the military demands made by Israel. In effect, it is saying “We will kill thousands and thousands of children until you give us everything we want.” 

I mean, imagine if Russia did that. Imagine if Putin started raining military explosives on parts of Ukraine known to be densely packed with children, and then saying the mass-scale child-killing will continue until Ukraine surrenders and that all of the child deaths are actually the fault of the Ukrainians because they still haven’t given Putin everything he wants.

 I think we all know that if such a thing were to happen it would be the subject of worldwide condemnation, and justifiably so. Such a tactic is not meaningfully different from lining up children on their knees on the battlefield and shooting them one by one in the back of the head until the enemy unconditionally surrenders. They’re not just doing this with airstrikes and bullets — they’re doing it with food as well. 

Aaron Maté has a new article out titled “The Biden doctrine in Gaza: bomb, starve, deceive” which picks apart statements from White House officials about the temporary pier this administration is planning to build on Gaza’s coast over the next several weeks, ostensibly to allow for the arrival of more aid into the enclave.

Maté writes the following: 

“The US military pier, Biden claimed, ‘will enable a massive increase in the amount of humanitarian assistance getting into Gaza every day.’ His own aides acknowledge that this is a ruse. According to the Washington Post, administration officials quietly concede that ‘only by securing the opening of additional land crossings would there be enough aid to prevent famine.’ 

And given that the pier will take at minimum 30 days to complete, that ‘[raises] questions about how famine in Gaza will be staved off in the critical days ahead,’ the New York Times notes. “The White House has given the answer: rather than compel Israel to open those land crossings and prevent famine, it is instead adopting the Israeli position that the land crossings can be used as a tool of leverage against Hamas — and that Israel can control everything that gets in. In ceasefire talks, Israel has demanded that Hamas release hostages in exchange for, at best, a six-week pause to the massacre.” 


Maté explains that Vice President Kamala Harris recently gave a speech in which she said Hamas needs to agree to a hostage deal in order to “get a significant amount of aid in,” which is the same as saying Israel and its allies will help starve Gazan civilians until Hamas capitulates to their demands. 

“The very fact that the delivery of ‘a significant amount’ of aid is conditional on Hamas accepting Israeli demands underscores that Israel, with US backing, is using that aid as a tool of coercion,” 

DJ...the "west wants peace" as long as the rest accept western domination and exploitation...The "zelensky peaceplan" demands Russia to surrender...Very likely in Syria NATO wants Assad to step down and replace it with IS ? 

Time is working ever harder against the "west" but western leaders seem to be to blind to see...

DJ-Economic warfare always has been the main factor...hyperinflation, de-industrialization, mass unemployment. a housing/mortgage=banking crisis...It is coming...

Western debts and fiat currencies are western most weak spot...

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[url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhUlhq-_MU4[/url] or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhUlhq-_MU4 Firstpost - India;

Ukraine's Soldiers are Fighting Russia in the Sudan War | Vantage with Palki Sharma

A report claims Ukrainian forces have reportedly been fighting against Russia-backed Wagner group in the Sudan. Wagner has backed the rebel forces in the Sudan. This marks a significant extension of the Ukraine-Russia war into the African continent. In the summer of 2023, at the invitation of Sudan's de facto leader, Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, Ukrainian troops arrived to assist in quelling rebel forces

DJ, al-Burhan provided Ukraine with weapons in 2022...Ukraine did send 100 commandos to fight Russian/wagner-backed rebels. The rebels made Port Sudan -Red Sea their main base. Unclear if zelenski did send the commandos, night vision gear etc. to Sudan with NATO help or knowledge...Sudan has a.o. gold...in between new BRICS+ members Egypt and Ethiopia...Saudi Arabia east of the Red Sea...

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[url]https://www.moonofalabama.org/2024/03/finding-the-right-words-on-gaza.html[/url] or https://www.moonofalabama.org/2024/03/finding-the-right-words-on-gaza.html ;

Wang Yi, the foreign minister of China, has found the right words to describe the ongoing genocide in Gaza:

Chinese foreign minister calls war in Gaza a 'disgrace for civilisation'AFP / Le Monde, Mar 3 2023

China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Thursday, March 7, called Israel's war in Gaza a "disgrace for civilization" and reiterated Beijing's calls for an "immediate ceasefire."

"It is a tragedy for humankind and a disgrace for civilization that today, in the 21st century, this humanitarian disaster cannot be stopped," Wang told journalists at a press conference.

A disgrace for civilization is also anyone, starting with Joe Biden, who supports the slaughter of the people of Gaza.

Why are ISIS like fanatics like this guy allowed to have any public function or say?

Head of Yeshiva Seder in Jaffa: According to the Halakhic Principle-Kill everyone in Gaza, even babiesynet.co.il, Mar 8 2024 (machine translation)

The head of the Seder yeshiva in Jaffa, whose students serve in the IDF after their studies there, said at a conference of Seder yeshiva held yesterday (Thursday) that according to the halakhic principle, all residents of Gaza should be killed. When asked specifically about the elderly and babies, he replied: "Same thing."
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"It's either you – or them," Rabbi Maley added. "No soul shall live on the basis of 'Bring to kill you – bring to kill you'. Not just the 14-year-old, 16–year-old, 20-year-old, 30-year-old man holding up arms - but the future generation as well. And also for those who produce the future generation. Because there really is no difference.

A disgrace for civilization. Indeed.

DJ, related [url]https://thecradle.co/articles/the-tel-aviv-torture-trail-israels-role-in-the-abu-ghraib-scandal[/url] or https://thecradle.co/articles/the-tel-aviv-torture-trail-israels-role-in-the-abu-ghraib-scandal ;

Among the contractors interrogating prisoners were employees of the private security firm CACI. One of the interrogators, Eric Fair, was stationed at the Abu Ghraib prison and in the restive city of Fallujah in 2004. He said interrogators in Iraq were taught to use a torture device known as the “Palestinian chair” by the Israeli military during a joint training exercise.

In January of that year, CACI president Jack London traveled to Israel as part of a high-level delegation of US Congressmen, defense contractors, and pro-Israel lobbyists.

During the visit, then-Israeli Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz presented London with an award at a gala dinner for “achievements in the field of defense and national security.”

The trip included a visit to Beit Horon, “the central training camp for the anti-terrorist forces of the Israeli police and the border police,” in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.

With "israel" volunteers showing up in Ukraine, Ukraine "special forces" very likely in Gaza the several wars are getting mixed...

NATO role will be intel, transport logistics...

[url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urO4MPUDr_8[/url] or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urO4MPUDr_8 MS;

The Assault Of Krasnohorivka | Avdiivka Operation | South Direction.

DJ;

-France planning to station French military in the south of Moldova to prevent Russia moving to Odessa

-Ukraine planning an offensive to open up the water-route to Mikolayev

-Ukraine may try to get some of its 100,000+ prisoners in uniform...However a lot of them were in prison because they refuse to fight for zelensky...

Nuland was taken out for a reason - the new guy is a China hawk - Europe is now in full panic mode because they know that the war US=NATO has caused is now a European problem - good luck producing shells without cheap energy and basically zero own resources. US used NATO to cut EU off cheap Russian energy - fertilizer - and other important resources. To be a vassal of US regime comes with a price tag.

DJ, for biden wars are to be won or to be hidden....

The US may go for even more proxy wars...Still both Palestine and Ukraine war has NATO in a very bad position...

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In how many ways "the west" can go bankrupt ? 

[url]https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/wests-reckoning[/url] or https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/wests-reckoning ;

Western leaders are experiencing two stunning events: defeat in Ukraine, genocide in Palestine. The first is humiliating, the other shameful. Yet, they feel no humiliation or shame. Their actions show vividly that those sentiments are alien to them – unable to penetrate the entrenched barriers of dogma, arrogance and deep-seated insecurities. The last are personal as well as political. Therein lies a puzzle.  

For, as a consequence, the West has set itself on a path of collective suicide. Moral suicide in Gaza; diplomatic suicide – the foundations laid in Europe, the Middle East and across Eurasia; economic suicide – the dollar-based global financial system jeopardized, Europe deindustrializing. It is not a pretty picture. Astoundingly, this self-destruction is occurring in the absence of any major trauma – external or internal. Therein lies another, related puzzle.

and [url]https://www.moonofalabama.org/2024/03/israel-coerces-un-workers-by-outright-torturing-them.html[/url] or https://www.moonofalabama.org/2024/03/israel-coerces-un-workers-by-outright-torturing-them.html ;

Every time one thinks that the depravity of Zionist fanatics has finally reached a limit they will proudly present even worse behavior.

UNRWA report says Israel coerced some agency employees to falsely admit Hamas linksReuters, Mar 9 2024

The U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees said some employees released into Gaza from Israeli detention reported having been pressured by Israeli authorities into falsely stating that the agency has Hamas links and that staff took part in the Oct. 7 attacks.

Coerced, pressured, ... Maybe they had a harsh talk?

No. They outright tortured, Abu Graibh like, these UN workers. Some of them to their death:

The document said several UNRWA Palestinian staffers had been detained by the Israeli army, and added that the ill-treatment and abuse they said they had experienced included severe physical beatings, waterboarding, and threats of harm to family members.
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In addition to the alleged abuse endured by UNRWA staff members, Palestinian detainees more broadly described allegations of abuse, including beatings, humiliation, threats, dog attacks, sexual violence, and deaths of detainees denied medical treatment, the UNRWA report said.
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Reuters could not independently confirm the accounts of coercion of UNRWA staff and mistreatment of detainees, although the allegations of ill-treatment accord with descriptions by Palestinians freed from detention in December, February and March reported by Reuters and other news media.

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Remi Brulin @RBrulin - 0:44 UTC · Mar 9, 2024

“We tortured some folks” is pretty bad

“We tortured some folk so we could destroy a huge relief organization that’s indispensable in dealing with a huge humanitarian crisis that we created in the first place” is…. something else

What are civilized people supposed to do with these miscreants?

DJ, of course western mass murders are not new at all...the west did get away with most of them...However wasting trillions in a pointless avoidable war that killed over 600,000 Ukrainians -at the same time accepting enabling the murder on over 30,000 Palestinians -on top of other war crimes- may be a new low for "western rules based order"....

🇺🇸🇵🇸The U.S Airdrop to Gaza, which killed 5 people, also reportedly contained Pork Fat. Reminder: Gaza is inhabited by 99% Muslims, who, in general, do not eat pork in any way, shape, or form.

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Pope on Russia-Ukraine war: "In Ukraine there are those who are calling for the courage of surrender, of the white flag. But others say that this would legitimize the strongest. What do you think? "It's an interpretation. But I believe that those who see the situation, those who think of the people, those who have the courage to negotiate, are stronger. And today it can be negotiated with the help of international powers. The word negotiate is a brave word. When you see that you are defeated, that things are not going well, you have to have the courage to negotiate. You're ashamed, but how many deaths will it end up with? Negotiate in time, look for some country to act as a mediator. Today, for example in the war in Ukraine, there are many who want to mediate. Turkey has offered itself for this. And others. Don't be ashamed to negotiate before it's worse.""   https://rsi.ch/info/mondo/Conflitto-a-Gaza-%E2%80%9Cdue-responsabili%E2%80%9D.-Ucraina-%E2%80%9Cil-coraggio-della-bandiera-bianca%E2%80%9D--2091038.html

DJ, crazy criminal "leaders" are the basic problem...zelensky is "finished" if the "west" finds out he may want to end the war...

🇷🇺 Maria #Zakharova: Some young people who wanted to come to the World Youth Festival are from the countries we now call unfriendly regimes. So, they are here. Why? Because we don’t smear everybody with the same paint; and we don’t politicise humanitarian links. Instead, we point out the destructive policy of certain political circles, noting that we are always open to everybody who comes to us in peace. Young people from all continents are here. There are guests from the United States, Canada, the NATO countries, the EU, and so on.

DJ...again...it is a western elite let others die for their stolen wealth...the 0,1% super-rich making money out of any crisis they can create...

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[url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxU_f52qwzM[/url] or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxU_f52qwzM MS;

 A Month Of Pain For Ukrainian Air Defence | Air Superiority. Military Summary 2024.03.09

DJ, from minute 16 -after Ukraine terror actions crossing the border into Russia to kill Russian civilians the (northern) Ukraine_russia border became part of the frontline.

My impression; Russia is now using Ukraine loss of defense capabilities (air defense, tanks, artillery) to gain ground. However main offensives still have to start. 

Both Charkov and Odessa are "Russian cities"...The Russian military actions now are meant to "break the NATO-proxy army in Ukraine" so the next offensives may end the war. 

-The west did-since 2014- invest "trillions" (weapons &  training, but also sanctions, propaganda) in the NATO expansion into Ukraine. Macron/France may put EU-forces in/near Ukraine trying to keep the US involved...

DJ, The EU is next to Ukraine-Russia-Belarus/Asia....again European interests are NOT the same as US interests....

One of the reasons for this -avoidable- war is the h.clinton lie "Putin did steal her election for US president and handed it to trump"....Insane !!!

With a re-run of the 2020 US "election" biden or trump- most US citizens see this as a horror...The world will turn away even faster from the US....Maybe Macron is trying to become a "leader of the west" with "biden incapable of leading anything".....

DJ-Losing the Ukraine war will be worse than the outcome of World War Two for the "west"....After may 1945 the Soviet Union/Russia had gained control over Central Europe and East Asia (part of Korea, taken over some former Japan islands, support for Mao in China, decolonization in Asia). 

"Giving up" on Ukraine means BRICS+ has won. BRICS+ -in many ways- already did beat "the west"....Africa may become a new frontline. 

BRICS only had Sout Africa (the "S") the BRICS+ did see Egypt, Ethiopia join...Algeria, Nigeria, Angola may bring the total number of African countries in the BRICS+ cooperation "plan" to six...end French domination in West Africa. 

Of course "de-dollar-ization" is already going high speed. The US is unable to enforce global (energy) trade made in US$. Also in that aspect "the west/NATO" did lose this war...

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[url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vT4zbiGRvFs[/url] or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vT4zbiGRvFs Hindustan Times - India;

'Full Support To Hamas': NATO Nation Shocks Ally U.S; Calls Israel 'Terror State' Amid Gaza War

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has come out in open support of Gaza militant group Hamas, saying that no one can force his country to call Hamas a terror group. “No one can make us qualify Hamas as a terrorist organisation….Turkey is a country that speaks openly with Hamas leaders and firmly backs them,” Erdogan said at an event in Istanbul on March 9. The Turkish President derided Israel, which it calls a “terror state” and its western backers for the war in Gaza that has killed more than 30,500 Palestinians so far. 

DJ, Erdogan welcomed zelenski in Túrkiye in the hope to start talks to get out of this war. zelenski did not want to talk about making any kind of steps towards the end of this war ...it would make him useless for western war-promotors/NATO.  The only goal of puppet zelenski is to keep fighting the "bad Russians"....

Comparing "israel" and Russian military actions only underlines the Russian story, they see Ukrainians as "sort of Russian"...NATO proxy "israel" sees Palestinians as sub-haman and -with western help- is killing over 30,000 of them...starving them in gettos, not stopping diseases spread a.o. via water...

DJ-The Gaza-genocide -and US help in it- may break NATO/EU....

[url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_of_Gaza[/url] or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_of_Gaza ;

The Port of Gaza is a small port near the Rimal district of Gaza City.[2] It is the home port of Palestinian fishing-boats and the base of the Palestinian Naval Police, a branch of the Palestinian National Security Forces. Under the Oslo II Accord, the activities of the Palestinian Naval Police are restricted to 6 nautical miles from the coast.[3] Since 2007, the Port of Gaza has been under an Israeli-imposed naval blockade as part of a blockade of the Gaza Strip, and activities at the port have been restricted to small-scale fishing.

DJ...if the west realy was interested in getting humanitarian aid into Gaza that port could be in use today...Building a "US made" port could take a few months...by that time 5-10% of the Gaza population is dead ? 

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[url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Qz7jVbXfEo[/url] or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Qz7jVbXfEo LP/Lena Petrova-US;

BANK FAILURES Will Start Soon, Admits Fed Chair Powell to U.S. Congress

DJ...NATO wars are destroying NATO finances....So far the costs of NATO wars -since 2001- already goes into trillions (US$/€ ) but the "big costs" are in front of us...Western "fiat" currencies based on thin air/debts will collapse...

The EU should join BRICS+ in EurAsianAfrican trade...it may limit damage to the Euro....The US$ -used as a weapon- is "over"....

[url]https://www.usdebtclock.org/[/url] or https://www.usdebtclock.org/ US debts soon will be 34,5 trillion...Untill recent the US$ was in use as global reserve currency-a lot of global trade "kept the US$ in the air"...now the US$ is crashing...Even the EU/UK can not stop that...

[url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)[/url] or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP) ...in reality Russia GDP-PPP in 2024 is larger than the German one...(So China 1, US 2, India 3, Japan 4, Russia 5) 

Economic statistics are chewing gum....[url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nominal)[/url] or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nominal) 

or [url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nominal)_per_capita[/url] or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nominal)_per_capita results in a different picture...however inequality resulted in the US, UK with a very rich elite 1% while a lot of the rest hardly lives above third world level...

It is sad irony that the rich elite -making profits out of wars- may even exploit the collapse of the US$....

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A few headlines;

[url]https://tass.com/world/1757497[/url] or https://tass.com/world/1757497 TASS/Russia (TACC)

Foreign mercenaries unveiled near Avdeyevka — DPR head’s advisor

Representatives of Poland and Georgia work at this front sector near the battle contact line, according to live recording data, Igor Kimakovksy said

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[url]https://www.presstv.ir/[/url] or https://www.presstv.ir/ Iran;

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Israeli air strike kills at least five civilians in southern Lebanon
 
Yemeni army simulates attacks on Israeli command centers, settlements
 
Israel may use chemical weapons in Gaza, Algeria warns

DJ...here in NL [url]https://www.dutchnews.nl/2024/03/hundreds-gather-to-protest-at-israeli-presidents-presence-in-nl/[/url] or https://www.dutchnews.nl/2024/03/hundreds-gather-to-protest-at-israeli-presidents-presence-in-nl/ ;

Around 1,000 demonstrators gathered on Waterlooplein in central Amsterdam on Sunday to protest at the presence of Israeli president Yitzhak Herzog at the opening ceremony for the new Holocaust museum

Waving Palestinian flags and carrying banners with texts such as “never again means now” and “museum yes, Herzog no”, the crowd chanted “from the river to the sea”, watched by riot police. Police have sealed off the area where the Portuguese synagogue is located and the ceremony is taking place.

The museum itself is housed in a former creche where some 600 Jewish babies were smuggled into hiding, opposite the former theatre where the city’s Jews were rounded up for deportation. 

and [url]https://www.at5.nl/artikelen/225530/liveblog-opening-holocaustmuseum-amsterdam[/url] or https://www.at5.nl/artikelen/225530/liveblog-opening-holocaustmuseum-amsterdam ...also lots of Jewish demonstrators. 

Again "israel" is a zionistic project by the west to get a grip on Middle East oil and gas...most Jews do NOT live in "israel"....In a propaganda war "israel" claims to be "the logical outcome" of the Holocaust...while in fact it was yet another replacement (from European Jews to West Asia...a territory under Muslim rule since 600...before that part of Egypt, Persia, Byzanthium, Babylon...the "Jewish roots" of "israel" is -at best- limited...and no excuse for kicking others (Palestinians) from their land...

Archeology in "israel" may have been as much "politicized" as it was in nazi-Germany...Most bathhouses etc. were NOT Jewish...other people also had bath houses etc....

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DJ, When -in history- did a country lose a war ? One can claim nazi-Germany was beaten during the battle of Stalingrad. [url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Stalingrad[/url] or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Stalingrad 

Maybe the invasion of the Soviet Union [url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Barbarossa[/url] or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Barbarossa 22 june 1941 could be seen as a suicide of nazi-Germany....

Russia/Soviet Union has three major allies;

-Distance

-Winter

-Time

One could claim "the west keeps fighting the vikings" when one looks at how often the "west" tries to "liberate" grain, energy etc. in Russia....

In parts of Eastern Europe, there has for a long time been a resurgence of forces, who during World War 2 collaborated with Hitler. Only so you can understand, why Soviets bombing a city in which nazi forces were making a stand, would be portrayed as something bad.  
Of course, it is all translated as if Russians, not the Soviet Union as a part of an alliance to destroy nazi Germany were to blame. But that is all a facade, a lie. 

After the collapse of communist regimes in Eastern Europe nasty forces made a comeback, and want to rewrite history. They can't just straight up admit, that they are ideological heirs of nazi collaborators, so they put the spotlight on Russia and communism. But, if you look closely, they are the same people who marched for the Reich all those years ago and would do it again in a heartbeat, if the monster ever appeared again in Germany.

and (Estonia sorce)

Today, 80 years ago #Tallinn 🇪🇪 was devastated by the March bombings, which destroyed a quarter of the city overnight. Up to 300 Russian aircrafts were bombing us & their primary targets were residential districts & cultural landmarks. Russian playbook is the same today in 🇺🇦

DJ...When you look at a map of the Russian Empire under the czars...pre 1917 then the Baltic States, Finland, parts of Poland, Ukraine are inside Russia. 

These nations tried to regain their own country after the 1917 revolution-during the Russian civil war. In 1939 stalin did retake most of these countries...

So...YES !!! Lots of Ukrainians, Baltic nations did work with nazi-germany...They were in between two bad alternatives...stalin or hitler...

"Time" in 1938 made a.hitler "man of the year"...most of the west did see hitler as the "better alternative" for stalin...

Also...YES !!! There are "ultra-nationalists" in eastern Europe, you even have limited neo-nazi's in Russia...The Ukraine-war did see lots of western neo-nazi's join the azov-regiment etc. (often with western help...Just like lots of westerners did get transport to join IS in Syria...)

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Finland.🇫🇮All cars with Ruzzian license plates must leave the national territory by March 16th. This is the next sanctioning step after the ban on entry into Finland for cars registered in Russia that was imposed in the autumn. All remaining cars will be confiscated and sold.

DJ...maybe also indicating NATO is with empty hands...Banning cars with Russian license plates does NOT help anyone...

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