The Stupidity Of Russian Sanctions

A Look At How The War In Ukraine Will Hurt Us As Much As Russia

By Dark Politricks

As the war in Ukraine continues, the rampant xenophobia against ordinary Russians, many of who are against the war continues unabated.

The sanctions against Russia have got to the silly stage. They were supposed to hurt Putin and his Oligarch Billionaire friends, and some have. However ordinary Russians are being attacked, and legally so on social media, as Facebook and Instagram changed their Terms of Service to allow violent and negative language against Russians, something usually banned by their sites.

Meta Platforms will allow Facebook and Instagram users in some countries to call for violence against Russians and Russian soldiers in the context of the Ukraine invasion, according to internal emails seen by Reuters on Thursday, in a temporary change to its hate speech policy.

Russian people and even Russian animals have been sanctioned. In response to the war in Ukraine, the International Cat Federation has banned all cats from Russia, and Russian breeds, from competing in international competitions.

 

Also, anti-war Russians such as the Russian piano prodigy, Alexander Malofeev, 20, who was supposed to play three shows with the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal (OSM), has been dropped after people emailed to complain despite him being outspoken against the war in Ukraine.

 

This is getting ridiculous and despite numerous videos online from ex-US military members, talking about the lack of Russian moral, and how Ukraine will win the war, the facts on the ground are pretty clear. Either the Ukrainian President Zelenskyy, egged on by the US War Hawks in the State Department, fights to the death and destruction of his country, or he settles terms with the Russians in talks that have been ongoing throughout the war.

The sad thing is that the terms he will most likely have to accept will be the same terms that the Russians, were asking for before they invaded, and all this misery and outpouring of Ukrainian refugees into Europe could have been stopped before it started.

This is clearly the US and other NATO country's fault, for giving him false hope that they would back him up, allow entry into the EU and NATO, and supply him with weapons and intelligence throughout the war.  

It seems though that the Pentagon, unlike the State Department, is a bit wiser, and stupid ideas which could expand the war such as bringing Polish MIG fighters into Ukraine and then re-supplying Poland with new planes, were a clear red line that Putin said would be an act of war and that any weapons or troops supplied by the West would be fair game.

With Russian Nuclear Arms on the equivalent of DEFCOM 2, 1 step away from a full nuclear attack, the Pentagon seems to agree with commentators that anything suggesting western help to Ukraine could expand the war, and make it global, even terminal for this planet.

This video is from the Duran, a channel that always goes into details that other videos miss. Earlier today they had a 1.5hr video on the round of peace talks being held by Russia and it included a journalist embedded in Ukraine, in the middle of what the Russian army calls a cauldron. This is where they slowly turn up the heat, once they have surrounded their enemy, and from the following video it seems they are doing just that in Mariupol.

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Russians have been using diplomacy at the same time as attacks in Ukraine, as they try to set up humanitarian corridors with the UN to let Ukrainian citizens, and hopefully, soldiers, slip away from the fight. They have no reason to bomb or shell these corridors as it gives the Ukrainians brilliant propaganda pictures of innocent civilians, being killed. 

Plus, according to some experts, they did this in Syria to good effect. They are not trying to own the skies with their modern fighter planes, albeit with fewer flying hours than US or NATO pilots. 

The history and reasons for this war are discussed in the following talk from a Christian speaker who discusses the history of the region now in conflict and the real reasons for the war.

They do not want to destroy the country like the US/NATO does in their wars with weeks, and sometimes months of aerial bombardment by missiles and planes dropping bombs before the troops go in, and then big money is given over to MIC companies like Halliburton to rebuild the country they just destroyed as in Iraq.

No, it seems that although some of the Russian conscript soldiers who have been paraded in front of camera's breaking Geneva conventions, providing great anti-Putin / war images from injured soldiers who say they were lied to about their invasion, haven't eaten properly, and do not want to fight Ukrainians just protecting their land that in fact Russia is going to win this war.

One other thing this rash of sanctions against Russia, which has pushed them closer to China and India, even offering to sell India cheap gas in Rupees in a sign that those countries who stick with Russia, like China, Brazil, and India, will be rewarded whilst those who have thrown every sanction in the book at them will be severely punished, such as the 200% increase in the price of Russian gas Europeans will have to pay whilst frantically trying to make other arrangements for imported energy.

It seems the USA has played Ukraine well, not only to get Europe out of Russia's sphere of influence and reliance on their gas, so that they can sell us theirs. Closing Nordstream2, and the threat of Nordstream1 as well was also ideally an outcome the US wanted from this conflict they started back in the Maidan coup. Even the existing multiple pipes that deliver gas through Ukraine to Europe could be turned off or even destroyed during the war.

At the moment US President Biden is going around the world begging to countries such as Venezuela, who only recently the US tried to overthrow their President, Nicolás Maduro in a failed coup, for cheap oil and gas to replace the loss of Russian imports, and to sell to Europe which is already suffering stupidly high inflation at the gas pump due to the sanctions.

We seem to be cutting our nose off to spite our face, as we pay £1.70+ per litre at the petrol station ($10.06 per gallon), and set to be over £2 by the end of the summer. I remember when petrol first went over £1 per litre, I was about 21 and couldn't believe it, however it has bounced between £1.20-£1.40 for the last 15+ years but has seen only a dramatic increase recently.

As well as petrol price which might help push a move to electric cars, we are already suffering high and constantly increasing energy costs to heat our homes and put the TV on. My bill already doubled at the end of last year and the company I am with was talking about doubling it again only the other month and that was before the war in Ukraine had even started.

I can only dread the bills coming in once the price of food rockets due to the increasing price of fuel for delivery drivers, plus Russia, Belarus, and Ukraine control over 30% of the wheat and fertilizer exports,, which will also drive up inflation into stupid numbers.

If we don't offer Putin some sort of "off-ramp", in which these sanctions can be reversed in return for peace, then almost half the world's population in China, India, and the far East with Russia, will be swapping US treasury bonds and dumping the dollar, whilst creating an alternative to the SWIFT banking system which will have the benefit of not being controlled by the whims of US feelings towards one countries actions.

President Biden is supposedly going hat in hand to Saudi Arabia to ask the head of the OPEC cartel to increase output and therefore reduce the price of oil globally. However, The Crown Prince, MBS, does not like Biden at all, and has not been picking up his calls since Biden's election pledges to hold Saudi Arabia to account for their war in Yemen, and murder of the US journalist, Jamal Khashoggi, as well as stopping arms sales.  

Joe Biden has been constantly rebuffed by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates in his attempts to persuade them to produce more oil in the wake of a US ban on Russian imports. The Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and the UAE’s Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed al Nahyan both declined requests to speak to the US president in recent weeks, and after declining to speak to Biden, Mohammed bin Salman took a call from President Putin. 

 

It looks like we might be more affected by our sanctions on Russia than anyone expected and in "Realpolitik" we really should not be picking dictators to sanction, and others to beg for cheap oil from. 

If you really think Putin is Hitler, as some US MSM commentators have said, then what is MBS who, in the largest known mass execution in the kingdom’s modern history just executed 81 people for crimes ranging from killings to belonging to militant groups. 

Can we really say that Putin is as bad as MBS, and the state of Saudi Arabia which is definitely, bombing Yemen into rubble, unlike Russia with Ukraine which in comparison has been quite restrained? 

The hypocrisy of this hunt for oil from dictators to replenish supplies from a supposedly democratically, although authoritarian elected Russian President, stands out like a black eye. Are we really going to delve into the degrees of despotism and discuss why it is that some wars are reported more than others? 

News commentary on the war by the US media, such as MSNBC's Joy Reid who faced massive backlash for accusing the media of covering the war in Ukraine with more compassion because the victims are "white and largely Christian" has shown how the western media are blatantly putting this crisis in Ukraine above the many others occurring in the world at the moment, many of which are of the USA's making.

Along with the censorship and de-platforming of independent reporters like Abby Martin, who just had 300 videos from Breaking The Set, an ex Russia Today show, in which she actually decried the Russian invasion of Crimea when it happened, it has become clear that some wars are just more important than others. 

No-one was sanctioned when the US illegally invaded Iraq, and the last major war in Europe was NATO's bombing of Serbia which led to the breakaway narco-state of Kosovo. However as it was the US doing the killing, it was somehow acceptable to invade a sovereign country, whereas reporters like Abby Martin in her Empire Files show, often talk about the often ignored and over-looked global conflicts and anti-imperialism wherever it comes from. 

It has got to the stage where white extremism is all the news offers as conflicts and humanitarian disasters, in Yemen, Palestine, Syria, and Afghanistan are ignored because somehow European conflicts are considered more important. 

The Arab and Middle Eastern Journalists Association even sent out a statement on Sunday condemning:

“the racist implications that any population or country is ‘uncivilized’ or bears economic factors that make it worthy of conflict. This type of commentary reflects the pervasive mentality in Western journalism of normalizing tragedy in parts of the world such as the Middle East, Africa, South Asia, and Latin America. It dehumanizes and renders their experience with war as somehow normal and expected."

Fair comment, and with the mass coverage of the Ukrainian crisis on western news shows, with other points of view labelled as Russian dis-info, or reporting on the history of the conflict and hypocrisy of the world ignoring NATO and US aggression as "Whataboutism", it is clear that without doing some major digging about on the web to find proper #ALTNEWS you are only going to get the side of the war the US and Europe want to project.

With the hypocrisy of this conflict clearly visible for all to see who want to, we must be willing to offer Russia and Putin a way to come to peace with Ukraine, and a way back to normality by rolling back extensive and stupid sanctions that will only hurt us as Russia pivots towards India and China, otherwise we will be the ones suffering most from the sanctions NOT Russia! 

By Dark Politricks

© 2022 Dark Politricks  

Why Mainstream Media Is Failing

The Orwellian World Of Mainstream Media

By Dark Politricks

It truly is an Orwellian world we are living in when people who attack the Democrats from the left are being called Right Wing, and NAZI's by supposed left wing personalities like Sam Seder and Cenk Uygur from the Young Turks, someone who has been in an online war recently with Aaron Mate, Glenn Greenwald, and Jimmy Dore, about the staged Douma Gas Attacks in Syria.

When real left wing journalists and personalities like Glenn Greenwald have to go to FOX News and the Tucker Carlson show to be heard then you know that we are now living in a world where black is white and the "liberal" establishment is censoring real progressive views, along with any news that attacks the Empire.

Here is a left wing comedian, who attacks the Democrats from the left. If people like Jimmy Dore have to go onto a right wing channel like FOX just to get their message across to millions of people, and actually manages to convince Tucker live on air, that Julian Assange should be pardoned. Then you know that the "left" wing channels like MSNBC no longer contain true left wing news shows.

Here is another left wing journalist, Glenn Greenwald, who is appearing on Tucker Carlson's show, to talk about how the defence budget is being spent 'spying on American citizens'. Tucker has just realised after NSA denials that he was a target of NSA spying due to his show trying to organise an interview with Russian Premier, Vladimir Putin. 

Although at first people claimed he was crazy to think that the NSA would be spying on an American citizen, despite everything we know they do from Edward Snowden and Thomas Drake, he has actually confirmed that the National Security Agency did indeed monitor his private communications. It was confirmed by the Fox News host from a whistle-blower.

“Tucker Carlson was talking to U.S.-based Kremlin intermediaries about setting up an interview with Vladimir Putin shortly before the Fox News host accused the National Security Agency of spying on him,” sources told Axios.

Read more about that story here > NSA confirms Tucker Carlson was being spied on.

Of course these left wing commentators, get labelled as "Right Wing", due to appearing on Tucker Carlson's show. However it seems to be the only place that will actually accept left wing guests anymore. MSNBC won't have them on to discuss the failings of the Joe Biden presidency and the American Empires foreign policy. 

Therefore where are these people supposed to go to get their message over to a larger audience than those who watch their YouTube channels?

If supposed left wing channels won't have these people on to discuss left wing points of view because they are now all pro-Biden, pro-war, anti-Russia, and anti-free speech, then supposed "American Liberal's" are in trouble if they are being brainwashed by Rachel Maddow and her conspiracies about #Russiagate. 

Even in a court case recently her lawyer argued successfully that her audience knows she does not deliver "real news", but puts her own "slant" on it, and rants and raves about wild political conspiracy theories that Russia is under everyone's bed, because her watching viewers already "know" she is just being hyperbolic. However do they really know that she is not delivering real news but just her own political views that are slanted by her political beliefs like #Russiagate?

You can read the page from the Judges dismissal of a case where she called out someone for being a Russian spy here.

Please read the central part carefully where it states and I repeat:

"Thus Maddow's show is different than a typical news segment where anchors inform viewers about the daily news. The point of Maddow's show is for her to provide the news but also to offer her opinions as to that news. Therefore the Court finds that the medium of the alleged defamatory statement makes it more likely that a reasonable viewer would not conclude that the contested statement implies an assertion of objective fact."

Therefore people watching Rachel Maddow, who believe her every word, have no basis to do so, in this judges view. She is a story teller NOT a news anchor. No wonder people trying to tell the world some real news have trouble finding a prime time spot to do so.

One of the most important pieces of news since the lies that led us into a failed illegal war in Iraq, has been the debunking of Syrian involvement in a chemical weapons attack, that ensured that they were then bombed by the Axis of War. The USA, UK and France.

The OPCW -  The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, and their cover up of the supposed Syrian gas attack in Douma, which has seen 4 of the inspectors now claiming that the published report was doctored, and in fact, there was no evidence that the Syrian army had dropped chemical weapons in barrels from the air into the suburb of Damascus, an area controlled by anti-Assad, and Western Proxy backed jihadist's for a long time.

A leaked OPCW assessment challenges the claim that the Syrian government carried out a chemical weapons attack in Douma in April 2018. The award winning scientist and MIT professor Emeritus Theodore Postol says the report shows the gas attack was "staged," and undermines the case for the US strikes that followed, in total 4 inspectors have now come forward to air serious concerns about the chemical watchdog’s Douma probe. 

However the OPCW Director General Fernando Arias has doggedly refused to address the extensive manipulation of the OPCW's probe into the alleged chemical attack in Douma. 

When it occurred in April 2018, the US, UK and France accused Syria of dropping chlorine gas cylinders that killed dozens, using staged white helmet, video footage with bodies moved and placed into certain positions for maximum effect. 

The Axis of War immediately used this an excuse to bomb the war torn country, in supposed retaliation and to help the starving war torn survivors of ISIS rule, which Syria, Iran and Russia were doing a good job at clearing out of the country, until Biden sent troops in to re-occupy the parts containing oil, and their wheat supply. 

Until now, no-one I know on the establishment side has explained why President Assad would carry out the one attack, that he knew, would cause the Axis to attack his own country after Obama stated his "red lines". 

Plus people forget that when John Kerry was asked what Assad could do to stop any attack, he replied "Give up your chemical weapons". Almost the next day, Assad handed over all his chemical weapons to Russia to be destroyed. Obama administration deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes, suggested that all of the Assad regime’s chemical weapons had been surrendered under the 2013 deal. 

In a tweet he even said that the U.S. airstrikes launched against Syrian targets “could not have ended the violence in Syria or removed all of the chemical weapons, which were destroyed through diplomacy.”. Therefore it seems very illogical for Assad who did not want any US involvement in his countries fight against the CIA backed Jihadists and ISIS, would carry out the one crime that President Obama had publicly claimed would cross a red line for the US and force them to attack the country. 

It is much more likely that a CIA backed jihadist group like Jaysh al-Islam, a Saudi-backed extremist militia, who were occupying Douma, a suburb of Damascus for years, carried out any attack, and then staged it so that it looked like the Syrians carried it out and were then blamed for it.

Ian Henderson, a 12-year veteran of the organization and weapons expert, had led on-the-ground inspections in Douma, and conducted a detailed engineering study of gas cylinders found at the scene. 

He concluded that the cylinders were likely “manually placed” rather than being dropped by air. A finding that suggests the attack was staged on the ground by the Saudi backed militants who controlled Douma at the time. He stated in front of the UN that “We had serious misgivings that a chemical attack had occurred,” referring to the FFM team in Douma.

When news like this airs on par with the falsehoods and lies that led us to war in Iraq that killed and displaced millions and is just being ignored by the mainstream news, it has to make you think, what would it take for MSNBC, the BBC and CNN to actually report accurately on all the anti-establishment narratives and lies that abound, now that whole News Stations and their broadcasting is being  controlled by Intelligence agencies.

It is left to sites like The Grayzone and independent journalists like Aaron Mate and Abby Martin from Empire Files to tell the truth online without getting banned from the public speaking squares we have all come to know such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.

This video is from the UN as Aaron Mate debunks OPCW’s Syria lies and confronts US, UK on their cover-up.

This news is REAL news. 

It does not deserve to be dismissed by fake news people like Rachel Maddow as irrelevant, now that Biden is President, any pro-war act he takes is okay by them. 

Whether it is caused by lies just like Iraq and seemingly Syria, it does not matter to them, for real journalists to get the word out, they have to appear on right wing news channels and risk being smeared, blackmailed and labelled NAZI's by other left wing personalities, all due to them doing all they can, to actually speak the truth, and get important information and REAL NEWS out to as many people as possible.

Please tell me what you think about the Douma attacks.  Would Assad be stupid enough to carry out the one attack that would rain hell fire down on him from the Axis of War or was it staged by CIA and their paid for Saudi backed jihadists?

By Dark Politricks

© 2021 Dark Politricks