Russia v NATO - Modern War In A Time Of Hypocrisy And A US Rules Based Order

The War That Destroyed Europe and Independent Thought

By Dark Politricks

As Europe heads into Winter, and the US White House seems hell-bent on fighting the Ukrainian war down to the last man. We need to reflect on our common values here in the West. Some of you may think Putin is the nearest thing to Hitler on the planet, but if you do think that, it just goes to show how far our western civilization has fallen in the era of Social Media Propaganda, and how easy it is to brainwash people using media, social and old, into one way of thinking.

You may have heard, if you watched the right shows, that the US was urging Zelenskyy to try to settle with Putin now before the Winter sets in and 300,000 new Russian recruits, and all their tanks, fitted to drive on the snow, come rolling into Ukraine to mop up what remains of the Ukrainian armies.

This is despite Zelenskyy himself signing a law that makes negotiating with Russia a criminal offense. He has basically prevented himself from ever negotiating a peace settlement, or else face up to 15 years in prison for "cooperation with the aggressor state”. After all the lies and false promises from the west, I doubt Russia would be interested anyway.

Whilst you might think erroneously that Ukraine is winning the war, with its take over of Kharkiv and Kherson, two cities the Russians basically vacated as they did not have enough men to keep hold of them. It seems Putin and his top Generals do not like risking the lives of their soldiers for a worthless cause with a lack of troops. However, it seems they do not mind the retribution killings of pro-Russian civilians that take place by Ukrainian soldiers whenever they re-capture a town.

The Ukrainians are good at killing their own civilians, as we saw in Bucha, a town that was reclaimed and proudly shouted about by the mayor for 2 days with no mention of dead bodies laying in the streets at all. 

That was until the SBU and AZOV Brigade NAZI's enrolled in to the Ukrainian State Police, carried out a "cleansing", which saw freshly killed dead Ukrainians who had taken aid from Russian troops, lying on the sides of the road, clearly labelled with red bandanas to show their support for Russia. Of course, this was somehow wangled into a "Russia did it" war crime, despite all the discrepancies, just as many other Ukrainian crimes have been.

This might be why when the Russians recently vacated Kherson they evacuated civilians into Russia before leaving the city and blowing up the bridges behind them. Now those civilians who chose to stay behind will now have to face the SBU, the Ukrainian Security Services.

There is a list that includes bloggers and journalists which the SBU have been following, and executing, not only in Ukraine when they find someone who took food or supplies from Russian soldiers but also as this article reveals, US Senators, Pop Musicians, and people who dare to speak against the pro-Ukrainian, everything they do MUST be good, narrative. 

Here is Pink Floyds musician Roger Waters on the kill list.

Roger Waters on the Ukrainian/CIA kill list for daring to challenge the official narrative

Of course this list has links and maybe even origins in the CIA, as this report reveals, as it not only targets independent journalists in Ukraine but “traitors” such as writers Chris Hedges and Glenn Greenwald, political scientist John Mearsheimer, Pink Floyd singer Roger Waters, Senator Rand Paul (R-KY), former presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard, conservative military analyst Edward Luttwak who was placed on the list for suggesting that referendums should be held in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, and Henry Kissinger, who is worried about the prospects of a war between the U.S. and Russia.

A US law passed in May, House Resolution 7691, the Additional Supplemental Appropriations Act of 2022, according to Scott Ritter, who is also on the kill list for speaking out about the true history of post-Communist Russia, and the US coup of 2014 in Ukraine, abridges freedom of speech and a free press by supporting the Government of Ukraine’s publication of the “blacklist,”. 

You can hear Scott speak about the list and Congress approval here:

This list singles out U.S. citizens as “Russian propagandists” for exercising their constitutional rights pertaining to free speech and a free press. He lives not far from a park in upstate New York, where many Ukrainians live, who hold rallies in the park to celebrate the NAZI collaborator, Stepan Bandera, a Ukrainian nationalist who helped kill thousands of Jews and Poles in Pogroms in Ukraine during and after WWII.

Stepan Bandera in New York, the Ukrainian NAZI

From this extract from an article written by a Donbass blogger, titled, "SBU THE TERRIBLE UKRAINIAN POLITICAL POLICE, ASSASSINATIONS AND TORTURE", we have this independent bloggers views of the Ukrainian special security forces spelled out very clearly.

There is no war in Donbass… only an anti-terrorist operation. Yes you read that right, it’s a law of the Rada of Ukraine that was passed back in 2014, there is no war in Eastern Ukraine… but terrorists who were seeking to destroy the country. According to this rhetoric, the SBU, which deals with counter-espionage, was deployed and very quickly committed numerous abuses, assassinations and various crimes. According to various sources, the SBU had nearly 30,000 agents and employees, and very quickly attacked anything Russian, anti-Maidan and which could hinder the march of the Coloured Revolution financed and organised by the USA, in the winter of 2013-2014. The young blogger Marina Russkaya (pseudonym to protect her family in Ukraine), a student of political science in the capital (2012-2015) told us at the time about her journey. Having started writing against the Maidan, she was soon in contact with other activists and soon followed by tens of thousands of people. It was during a morning in 2015 that she was called by an activist friend in Kiev: “you have to flee Marina, they are breaking down my door, they are coming to get you!" Taking only her handbag, the young woman, then aged 24, fled Ukraine. Luckily, she was able to take a train to Russia and from there to the Donbass. That day, the SBU raid caught several dozen activists in its net. When asked about this, Marina said she had no news: “they were murdered, imprisoned, they will certainly be killed if they have survived in the Ukrainian prisons where they are languishing, the SBU will not let them live before fleeing”.

These security forces are the same people suspected of taking money from Western aid and buying flash cars. If they cannot get the cash directly they don't mind selling US armaments to Biker gangs in Scandinavia or terrorists on the Dark Web. According to NBI Detective Superintendent Christer Ahlgren, “Weapons shipped [by various countries] to Ukraine have also been found in Sweden, Denmark and the Netherlands.” Before the war, even the USA deemed them nearer a criminal organisation than the freedom fighters they now believe they are. 

The SBU Security / Terrorist Services of Ukraine

So why is the British Secret Services combining forces with the SBU and other Ukrainian security services to create a terrorist army in Crimea?

On October 28th, a Ukrainian drone attack damaged the Russian Black Sea fleet’s flagship vessel in the Crimean port of Sevastopol. 

The UK plans to attack Russian ships and targets in Crimea

Moscow immediately blamed Britain for assisting and orchestrating the strike, as well as blowing up the Nord Stream pipelines, the worst acts of industrial sabotage in recent memory.

Nord Stream pipelines, blown up by the UK and USA, a terrorist attack on allies.

The British Ministry of Defence issued a blustery denial in response, branding the accusations “false claims of an epic scale.” Whoever was behind those specific attacks, suspicions of a British hidden hand in the destruction are not unfounded. 

The Grayzone has obtained leaked documents detailing British military-intelligence operatives linking an agreement with the Security Service of Ukraine’s Odessa branch, to create and train a secret Ukrainian partisan terror army.

Their plans called for the secret army to conduct sabotage and reconnaissance operations targeting Crimea on behalf of the Ukrainian Security Service, precisely the kind of attacks witnessed in past weeks. You can read more about how the UK has been collaborating with terrorists here on the Grayzone

It seems that when morality meets conflict, the west literally has no legs to stand on to accuse Russia of crimes that our own governments have been plotting and committing in Ukraine. Our western news services only provide propaganda to audiences who may swap from the BBC to ITV or CNN to MSNBC, to get their different perspectives on the war, yet each channel churns out the same narrative. Everything Ukraine does is good, or not mentioned, and everything Russia does is bad.

However, when the ground turns cold, and the Russian tanks are ready to roll, we will finally get to see the Russian army fight without all the constraints Putin has put on it since invading Ukraine. 

He is at least partly responsible for all the assassinations and killings of pro-Russian Ukrainians that were left behind in towns their under-manned army vacated to leave to the hands of SBU members to "cleanse", and then try and wangle their abuses as Russian killings just as they tried to do with their S300 Shell that was fired into Poland and killed 2 Polish farmers. 

Listen to a real journalist from The GrayZone, Max Blumenthal be interviewed by Russel Brand about the war in Ukraine and the killings that go on by the Ukrainian army against their own citizens.

Of course, Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Tuesday, without producing evidence, that Russian missiles had hit Poland, a NATO country, in what he called a “significant escalation” of the conflict.

“Russian missiles hit Poland, the territory of our friendly country. People died,” Zelenskyy said in his nightly video address. However even Poland and the USA have claimed this to be false, yet still blaming Russia for the fact a NATO country was attacked by a non-NATO Ukraine.

Green Screen Zelenskyy - getting ready to make another speech from the frontline

Zelenskyy was calling for immediate Article 5 implementation of NATO's collective Defence policy, yet it was Ukraine a non-NATO member who had fired and killed Polish civilians, with no evidence provided for the reason that they fired their anti-missile batteries towards Poland. 

Was this a deliberate false-flag event to try and get NATO to come rushing to Ukraine's aid, as their foreign legion of ex US/UK forces, special forces, Polish soldiers, and ISIS and al-Qaeda terrorists, all wait for winter and the rolling out of half a million Russian troops?

Let's just re-cap the last 8 months and how far the west has fallen due to the most corrupt European nation being invaded by Russia.

• The loss of free speech online, anyone who goes against US/NATO narrative is labeled a Russian Agent or BOT and kicked off social media platforms, or even worse, put on that CIA/SBU assassination list.
• Social media virtue signalling without any knowledge of what they are supporting. The Ukrainian flags may tell others you support Ukraine, but what kind of Ukraine are you supporting? One that has kill lists that include journalists, NAZI's who use civilians as human shields as Amnesty International has reported?
• Allowing social media sites such as YouTube to show literal "snuff films", where Russian soldiers are shot and left to lie on the floor with bags over their heads as they die. Anti-Russian sentiments are allowed to be declared from every social media site but dare tell something that does not fit the "Ukraine is good, Russia is bad" narrative and you could see yourself cancelled. Is this free speech, is this giving the citizens all sides of the story so they can make their own minds up, or is it the Government pushing propaganda into our heads?
• MI6 & USA blowing up the Nord Stream pipelines, apparently during her short term as PM, all Liz Truss did was concentrate on Ukraine. It was her bugged iPhone, using Israeli Pegasus malware, that told the Russians the Brits had played apart in the terrorist attack on German & Russian infrastructure, helping to cause misery and suffering in the cold and much poorer houses of Europe this winter and drive Europe into the USA's hands for expensive energy needs as planned by this supposed RAND report, if it is fake then it was very good at foretelling the future.
• The self-inflicted economic disaster we have given ourselves. With no time to recover from COVID and supply line issues, we dived right in on the anti-Russian sanctions economic war which has only hurt us not Russia. The Russian Ruble is doing fine and we may feel all good about stopping cheap Russian gas flowing to us, as our energy bills rise along with inflation, but Russia is just doing more oil and gas deals with the rest of the world who have not voted against the Russian invasion. It is only NATO and the EU who have pegged their economies in a futile battle with Russia, sanction after sanction, and none of it has worked. It has only led to our massive cost of living crisis. Other countries like India have cut cheap gas deals with Russia for not voting against them in the UN, and other countries from South America, to China and the global South all see the hypocrisy in our moral crusade using very unmoral methods.
• We like to claim we have the moral high ground, and Russia is not following "The Rules Based Order" set up after WWII, which as this article states is basically 4 rules:
• America makes the rules.
• You will follow and obey American rules.
• You will not listen to the United Nations.
• If you fail to obey American demands, America reserves the right to obliterate you.
• Believe it or not but Russia has followed UN International law, in protecting citizens of an imminent attack. The Minsk accords which Russia was hoping would solve the issue of Russian speaker's rights in the Donbass without breaking up Ukraine were not kept by France, Germany, and Ukraine and instead used by NATO to build up the Ukrainian army to take back the Donbass and Crimea after the US-led Maidan coup in 2014. As you can read in my article from February 2022, nearly everything I predicted has come true. Russia and China have got very close, the Nord Stream 2 pipeline did not go ahead, and we are allowing ourselves to freeze only to say that we stand with Ukraine. This is whilst the US illegally occupies Syria's oil fields, helping themselves to their wheat and gas, hypocrisy or just the consequences of everyone following the "Rules Based Order". The Russians are following international law, the US only follows international law if it suits them, otherwise, it's their "Rules Based Order", that takes precedence. The rest of the world sees this hypocrisy, and it is why the BRICS nations are expanding, with Saudi Arabia looking to join which could mean the end of the Petrodollar dominance that has allowed the USA to print money like there is no tomorrow.
• Using ISIS and al-Qaeda terrorists, and paying them to fill the holes in the Ukrainian foreign legion. Are we now on the side of these terrorists? I thought they were our "mortal enemies", I know about Gladio 2, maybe you should read up on Gladio 1 and replace "fake Communists" with "fake terrorists". We supported them in Syria, and use them to cause chaos.
• Using terrorist tactics ourselves to kill or damage infrastructure such as the truck bomb/missile attack on the Crimean bridge. Did the driver of that van of fertiliser, making the truck one massive IRA-style bomb, know he was to become a suicide bomber?
• Supporting a country that may have killed innocent Polish farmers seeking to get NATO in on their war. Not only has Ukraine shown a lack of care for its own citizens with the "cleansings" that happen after every town they re-take, innocent civilians massacred, but they shelled a Russian POW camp hoping to kill their own men to stop the Russians from videoing their evidence. Attacking a nuclear power station with HIMARS and other artillery which could have led to a massive nuclear, Chornobyl-style disaster for Europe, oh and trying to blame their own attack on Poland on Russia to get NATO in even more on their side in the war.

Now, don't get me wrong, I am not Russian, I have no wish for Russia to take over the West, or want to see Russian war crimes committed, and I definitely do not want to see WWIII. 

However, I also don't want our economy to enter its biggest recession yet partly due to this conflict. I don't want high inflation, blackouts, and high energy costs, all due to a sanctions war, and turning away from cheap Russian gas which Europe's economy relies on. All this suffering in the West just so our leaders who can afford the price hikes, and high fuel bills, to virtue signal that we are behind Ukraine all the way.

However, it is war and I believe that just as Ukraine has committed war crimes by using citizens as human shields as outlined in the Amnesty International Human Rights report on tactics used in this conflict, which stated "Ukrainian forces have put civilians in harm’s way by establishing bases and operating weapons systems in populated residential areas, including in schools and hospitals", I am sure Russia has committed them too. 

In the fog of war, where we are prevented from making our own minds up, and pushed propaganda from all angles. Most of us dare not think for ourselves for fear of being labelled "pro-Russian". It seems morality is definitely relative during war time, for anyone doing a philosophy course.

For independent journalists and bloggers, singers and ex-politicians or US military who dare to state historical facts, such as the current war actually started in 2014, and that Ukraine was killing their own citizens in the Donbass as NATO trained their army for a war with Russia. Then as independent thinkers, we are put on CIA kill lists.

Is that what we now stand for?

By Dark Politricks

© 2022 Dark Politricks

The "Cost of Living" Crisis

The Cost Of Living Crisis is not one we deserve

By Dark Politricks

I have been in hospital twice lately so apologise for the lack of articles, however, it has shown me what a state the Tories have let the NHS get into. The hospital I was staying in was rolling out a new computer system, where every patient had a QR code on their armband. It had to be zapped before any medication was given to you, or your blood pressure was taken. 

Anyway, before any new computer system is developed and then dumped for being unusable like the last £20bn system was, they should concentrate on the basics first. Things like ensuring wards have working showers for people to use rather than being used as store rooms, and air conditioning so we don't all sweat our beds wet in the 30-40C heat waves we have been having, those would have been nice.

It's a travesty that they expect people to keep clean and germs and bugs not to spread in a hospital when men cannot even wash properly every day. There is a lack of towels and alcohol gel to clean your hands with as well, and we all just lay in the heat in silence. Not nice.

I could go on about this all day, however there are more important things to worry about in the UK at the moment. Such as the Tory battle for leadership of the corrupt party that has led us to the biggest economic mess since the 70's at least.

Every time I hear commentators or people talking about the "Cost of Living" crisis we are going through, with inflation at double figures and the worry that energy companies will be putting our bills up by over 100% every 3 months for at least a year to come there is no talk about the root underlying cause of all this.

All that is mentioned is that the high inflation is being caused by BREXIT, COVID, and supply chain hangovers from the lockdown. Plus there are plenty of companies price gouging and making millions on top of the high inflation that is going to be hurting everyone in the country for at least a year or more to come.

What I don't ever hear is the real reason for the high rise in food, petrol, heating and delivery costs i.e our stupid sanction war with Russia.

With all these hustings between Rishi Sunak, the ex-Chancellor of the Exchequer. A man who had no fear of stabbing his boss in the back and Liz Truss the trade secretary who is so blind and has no foresight that she, along with Rishi, could not see the damage the sanction war with Russia would do to our own economy. Either one is not going to be able to solve our inflation problem.

These two Tories are fighting to take over from Boris the Buffoon, the blonde-haired idiot who basically agreed to follow the US/NATO plan to sanction Russia for their invasion of Ukraine, and push for other EU countries to do so, all at the cost of destroying their own economies.

It must have just slipped his mind that the whole continent relies on Russian gas to keep our lights on and our houses warm in winter.

When the picture of the Earth at Christmas is taken from space this year the EU is going to look as dark as North Korea. Yet no one seems to want to mention it apart from "Putins price hike", as in he is punishing us for no reason at all.

There is no mention that we have taken and used millions of pounds of his gas and then refused to pay him, basically stealing Russia's money. Then all the sanctions we have laid at Russia's door trying to destroy their economy but instead only solidified Russia's partnership with China, and made the country look to new territories like India to sell their massive raw materials to. 

Russia could destroy the whole of the EU in one second by turning the gas pipes off and we didn't even think about a plan B in case this economic war didn't pan out the way we wanted it to. I think a proper leader should have, as it is pretty clear that Russia is more than just a big gas station with the GDP of Cyprus.

Boris was just too hand appy to get his own "war" and pretend to be Churchill as he met the puppet Zelenskyy in Kyiv, telling him not to negotiate with Russia, as the EU and USA would keep him and his country pumped up with weapons and training. All that has done is cause a massive loss of life of citizens, Ukrainian soldiers, Ukrainian men drafted into the army, and Russian soldiers.

The only problem is that Russia is chewing up Ukraine's army and spitting them out in the thousands as they roll through the Donbass and liberate the Russian-speaking areas of the country. In fact the Ukrainian forces with US weapons are now using them to indiscriminately shell Ukrainian towns, shopping centres, and schools in the parts of the country now under Russian control. 

This was outlined in the recent report by Amnesty International which reported on Ukrainian forces using civilians as shields, therefore, making them Russian targets by establishing bases and operating weapons systems in populated residential areas, including in schools and hospitals. It said:

“We have documented a pattern of Ukrainian forces putting civilians at risk and violating the laws of war when they operate in populated areas,” said Agnès Callamard, Amnesty International’s Secretary General. 

“Being in a defensive position does not exempt the Ukrainian military from respecting international humanitarian law.”

You can read the full report on their website here.

The US and Europe have pumped billions of dollars worth of weapons into Ukraine, wanting to fight Russia down to the last Ukrainian. However, the Russians either destroy NATO weapons as they enter the country or as they sit in warehouses. 

If they do get to the Ukrainian troops then there is a high chance they are either sold to the Russians, or on the black market due to the Kyiv forces' limited ability to use them because of their lack of training, claims former senior Pentagon adviser Karen Kwiatkowski. 

The US and EU are literally throwing money down the drain by arming Ukraine as well as probably arming terrorist groups that will come back to haunt us in the future.

The Ukrainian army has apparently even used the US-delivered HIMARS to attack a Russian POW camp in which Ukrainian soldiers held there were starting to do TV interviews about how they were forced into the army and made to do terrible things against their own countrymen. 

I am under no illusion that inside a POW prison camp there is going to be torture going on between guards and inmates due to the civil war between the two republics and western Ukraine for so long. I bet this is true in both Ukrainian and Russian POW camps. 

We have heard claims from both sides and seen videos of the AZOV Battalion torturing Russian POW's in videos, so I have no doubt the Russians would want revenge on them for doing so and filming it. Why YouTube even let it be uploaded to their site I have no idea, it was a literal snuff film.

There must be a deep hatred between both parties against each other due to the killings that have gone on since 2014, so I don't expect any POW prison in Ukraine at the moment is being run as the Red Cross would wish. However, blowing it up from inside and putting your own men at risk of death seems a stretch especially when people have claimed otherwise. What is needed is an independent war crimes investigation on the scene now and months later.

You will have to watch this video on YouTube as they obviously don't want it being embedded all over the web for people to view. Just click the image and it will open the video on YouTube.

I was hoping whilst I was in the hospital and over the months since I first started writing about the truth in the Donbass, that people I knew would actually start to do their own thinking instead of just ingesting western propaganda about how Ukraine could still win the war and how evil Russia was, however, that doesn't seem to be the case.

The Ukrainian propaganda about how they were ready to do a million-man counter-offensive, and how Putin is close to dying from some horrible disease is just classic MI6 disinformation, and until the new security laws come into play in the UK there has to be an outlet where an alternative point of view is shown to those who take everything the BBC, Sky, and ITV say to them as the literal truth. 

Just banning RT and Sputnik from being read is the sort of thing the Soviet Union did to prevent the people realising what kind of horrible system they were living in, Is that what we have become in the US and UK? 

A country that just bans anything that does not parrot the official line because it might make you think for yourself. Is that the new normal, a society that bans opposition points of view like the Chinese?

If all that the western MSM is telling you is the truth, then why are all these Ukrainian nationals in the East of the country welcoming Russian soldiers who have come to liberate them from the Ukrainian army units that were designated as terrorist groups by many in the west until the war started?

You should check the blog I have taken this from yourself and watch some of the videos as this ex US soldier has been right from before the war even started. 

However, these videos are of Russians liberating Ukrainians in the Donbass and the translations are below. Go and use Google translate if you want to verify it for yourself. Even CNN has a video of all the Ukrainians with their worldly goods stashed in their cars traveling across into Russian-held territory. You can watch their video here.

Commentary...

The ladies from 0:00 to around 0:14 are saying, among other things, “Yes, of course we waited (for you)” and (the smiling blonde in the pink cream coat) “Everyone wants to see, hug, and kiss you!”

The ladies from around 0:15 to 0:26 are also elated.  The one on the right says, “We awaited you for so long.”

Then, the man behind them says (rough translation, cannot be translated literally), “You made it here, good job guys… Wonderful, wonderful.”

The older folks starting from 0:27, also seem pleased.  The white-haired lady says (rough translation, to get the point across), “Well, you know what we had to live with here.”  

The man next to her adds, “So we waited, waited with impatience.  On (satellite?) TV, we watch Russian channels, and (we track where is the) theatre of military operations, where is it, where is it moving to… Like generals who track where the forces are, where they will pass… We sweated for every soldier, for all of them.”

The last few seconds of the video shows four local boys posing with Donetsk soldiers, the Victory Banner—the flag of the Red Army’s 150th Rifle Division, raised over the Reichstag in 1945, and now flown over all territories newly under control of Russian, Donetsk, and/or Lugansk forces—and (at left) what may be the given unit’s colours.  

The little girl relates, “I ran with (my) grandmother to see the flag… We sat over there.  I was so happy.  I don’t know how to convey it in words.”

She then relates how she was studying in Ukrainian but now expects to be studying in Russian (obviously the language she and 95 percent of the Donbass speaks at home and in the course of routine business.) 

You can read the article over at The Dreizen Report here. 

Also, remember we are in the minority of countries across the world who have attacked Russia for their military operations inside the Donbass. As more and more of the actual truth of the war comes out and people realise Ukraine is actually losing, many people are starting to see that we have joined a proxy war in which Russia knows exactly where our troops are running about, and even letting them play SAS saboteurs because they know it does not matter. 

They know they are going to win this war and even the USA is starting to realise it and throw Zelenskyy under the bus. They are already looking for other countries to start wars with like China, Syria, Yemen, and Iran.

If there wasn't a worse US Presidency for sticking their noses into other countries' businesses and starting wars that could make the mess the world is already in even worse, then I cannot remember one. 

Yes George W Bush used 9.11 as an excuse to start a war in Iraq and Afghanistan which was one big scam for companies like Halliburton to rebuild everything the US army destroyed in their shock and awe tactics. Also, we saw last year at the end of the US army's 2-decade stay in "The Stan", with the mad rush to evacuate US citizens and Afghan translators, what a scam that was as all the millions they had spent training Afghan troops up were wasted and easily shown to the world. 

In the panic of the rush to get out, the Afghan army the US taxpayer had paid millions to train, just handed their weapons to the Taliban, and they rode into Kabul triumphantly in the million-dollar Humvees that the US had just left for them to take. 

Only the other day the leader of al-Qaeda was killed by a drone in the centre of Kabul, Ayman al-Zawahiri. 

So the US didn't exactly do a very good job of kicking al-Qaeda out of the country as they claimed to have. In fact, they were too busy using them in Syria, funnelling weapons to them to fight Assad. 

It is dangerous to be a friend of the USA, one minute you are top of a terrorist list, the next you are being paid to fight proxy wars for them, and then when you are of no use you are killed by a Reaper Drone strike. 

I dread to think of how Zelenskyy will have his life ended, the Russians could have killed him a thousand and one times by now with missile strikes, or by using NATO "shock and awe" bombing of Kyiv but they have left him alive. Why? 

The US was trying to kill Saddam Hussein from day one in their invasion of Iraq. I suspect it is because the Russians see that the West has legitimised his leadership and made him some kind of hero. They want him around to negotiate any peace deal with when there are no more Ukrainian soldiers to kill.

Believe it or not, the Russians have actually moved slowly into the East of Ukraine and not used NATO "shock n awe" tactics that destroy every building as they go as they have no desire to destroy the country only to rebuild it again. 

They are using tactics western mercenaries and soldiers on the ground have never seen in combat in Iraq and Afghanistan. Reporters have described British and American veterans talking about what hell it is to fight the Russians who have overwhelming air superiority and fire 10 ten times or more the number of rockets and artillery that the Ukrainians do.

I know one person's view cannot change the minds of a million but we are going to suffer badly because of our leader's choice to start an economic war with Russia. 

Is it worth all the extra money you are going to have to find and the decisions to choose whether to eat or heat, all because of NATO's (the US/UK) desire to use Ukraine as a playground to fight Russia in?

When you are deciding how to pay the bills or wondering how the price of petrol (gas), has got so high at the pump in the coming months will you be thinking that this is all the cause of events beyond your control or will you realise how our war with Russia has played such a huge part in making you broke?

Is it worth fighting a proxy war, and pouring weapons into a country that was ranked the most corrupt in Europe just so they can sell them on the dark web to terrorists all to stop Russia from doing what they said they would almost 20 years ago? 

We had the Minsk accords created to allow for the Eastern Russian population to carry on speaking Russian, but we ignored them and kept poking the bear, training the Ukrainian army including the NAZI brigades, as they shelled and killed over 16,000 people in the East of Ukraine.

It may have taken a decade and a bit but the bear has bitten back and it is very clear who is suffering from this war when you look at the prices of food and energy on your monthly bills. 

We don't have to support Russia to not shoot ourselves in the feet. We can still condemn their actions without all the sanctions that have hurt us more than them. Voting for a new Tory leader isn't going to do anything to solve this problem at all.

We can still save ourselves from huge energy bill increases without believing the Russian invasion is all good, but the leaders of the West had no plan B, and because of that, the citizens of Europe are already suffering. 

Any new leader of the Tory party should reverse the sanctions in return for the gas to be turned back on and negotiated peace talks. It is the only way we can help Ukraine end the war, give Russia an exit, and stop ourselves from hyperinflation and a very cold expensive winter due to the events in Ukraine.

By Dark Politrcks

© 2022 Dark Politricks

Price Gouging - Blame Putin or Unilever - Russian General Says The UK Will Cease To Exist!

Big Companies Taking Advantage of Oil and Gas Shortage To Price Gouge

By Dark Politricks

As the European Union, UK and USA shoot their own feet off by sanctioning themselves in the war in Ukraine, politicians are quick to blame rising high inflation figures on Putin. 

Politicians are quick to claim that Putin is using "food as a hostage", This is despite Russia offering to clear the port of Odessa of all the mines the Ukrainians let loose preventing any ships docking for the "Bread Basket of Europe" to actually export the wheat they produce for the world.

As I showed in a previous article Russia is the top exporter of wheat in the world, and Ukraine is the 5th. If the wheat cannot leave the war zone this will cause massive food shortages around the world and cause immense suffering in the poorest nations.

So when the food prices skyrocket and inflation hits 20% if not already really there, then don't blame Russia, blame our stupid sanctions war with them. They are already threatening to cut our gas off this winter, leaving Europe in the dark.  

International Energy Agency (IEA) chief Fatih Birol has warned the EU to be prepared for the possibility of a complete shutdown of Russian gas exports this winter, calling on the bloc's members to widen the span of measures aimed at preparing for this scenario, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday.

“Europe (sic) should be ready in case Russian gas is completely cut off. The nearer we are coming to winter, the more we understand Russia’s intentions,” he said, as cited by the news outlet.

Commenting on Gazprom slashing 60% of gas supplies via the Nord Stream pipeline last week, which the Russian company stresses is purely technical, Birol said that:

“the cuts are geared towards avoiding Europe filling storage and increasing Russia’s leverage in the winter months.”

Of course, none of this is our fault. People don't like to look beyond April of 2022 for the causes of the war, the US coup in 2014, the failure of the Minsk accords that were allowed to fail, and the impending invasion of the breakaway peoples' republics in the Donbas.

Like most of the propaganda spread in the war, Russia is always the culprit of numerous atrocities without any real proof or investigation having been carried out. This is despite the Azov "cleansing", killings at Bucha and the missile attack at the train station at Kramatorsk being debunked. Now apparently the Russians are indiscriminately shelling their own positions in Donbass from the west.

The aftermath of shelling from Ukrainian forces into Donetsk in the Donbass region of East Ukraine.

Truth is always the first casualty of war,  However, this is a war where we only hear the lies put out by western media sources, backed by anonymous sources, or CIA agents on US News channels who have no idea what is actually going on in the Eastern part of Ukraine. The truth of the matter is actually that Russia is slowly dismantling the Ukrainian army bit by bit.

Ukrainian President Zelensky even came out to admit he is losing up to 200 men a day, which we can obviously multiply due to propaganda reasons. However, he is losing soldiers at such a fast rate they cannot be replaced by the 50yr+ men prevented from leaving the country, given an hour's worth of weapons training, before being sent off to the front line to die for NATO.

Even US newspapers are now writing stories about the failures in Ukraine and trying to blame Zelenskyy. This is despite the US deviously offloading old and often broken weapons, such as the Javelins that had been sitting in warehouses since the 90's without refitting them before being sent to the country they promised to defend, many failing to work, fire or explode, all whilst making their MIC companies billions.

Whilst MI6 spreads its usual disinformation about Putin about to die from Parkinson's, or Cancer, or assassinated our leaders forget their approval ratings are in the dirt whilst Putin enjoys record approval ratings unlike Boris Johnson and Joe Biden, the two most Russophobic leaders in the NATO proxy war. 

They are forgetting that their actions have already been decreed by Russia as full involvement in the war. Everyone knows the US is running the Ukrainian army and that Zelenskyy is just the frontman, who has had his life threatened by the Right Sektor Nationalists if he dares to enter into peace talks with Russia. 

Also, this French reporter openly spoke about it when he arrived in Ukraine and was met with US Army Personnel who said they were in command, not the Ukrainians.

If Putin wasn't already thinking about attacking the UK as the Sun claims, then he probably will with more European interference with his Russia The UK will "physically cease to exist" if the latest stand-off in Lithuania triggers a nuclear World War Three, a retired Russian general has claimed. Speaking on Russian state TV this week, lieutenant general Evgeny Buzhinsky n semi-exclave Kaliningrad sandwiched between Lithuania and Poland now being affected by the sanctions war.

The UK will "physically cease to exist" if the latest stand-off in Lithuania triggers a nuclear World War Three, a retired Russian general has claimed. Speaking on Russian state TV this week, lieutenant general Evgeny Buzhinsky said the West is playing with fire in blockading the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad, in order to prevent sanctioned goods from reaching the territory via NATO state Lithuania.

The military expert also lashed out at British general Sir Patrick Sanders, who took command of Britain’s land forces last week and announced his arrival with a chilling message saying troops should be prepared to fight Russia and defend Europe.

"He doesn’t understand that as a result of the Third World War Britain will physically cease to exist," said Lieutenant Buzhinsky.

"The island will vanish, so I’ve no idea where he or his descendants will live."

With the train line from Russia to Kaliningrad being stopped by Lithuaniajan Railways, I can only see Russia expanding the war, and with the western nations nearly all out of weapons due to giving them all over to Ukraine, mostly to be blown up by Russia on import, or sold on the black market, how do we expect to defend ourselves without the war turning nuclear?

Even the weapons that do get through to the Ukrainians are not making a difference and with Zelenskyy repeatedly asking for more tanks, armoured vehicles and artillery, it only means all the free weapons we have given him have already been destroyed already or taken by Russian troops as souvenirs. This leaves the western nations in a bad position if we did have to go to war with Russia.

Not only have our sanctions backfired, causing massive inflation at home, with more to come if no wheat, grain, or fertilizer can get out of the war zone. Whilst the rich EU nations may be able to bite the bullet for a while, it will be the poor nations in Africa and the South that will suffer the most from drastically inflated high food prices and there could easily be famines if the west does not back down from this stupid economic war with Russia that we are clearly losing,

Petrol is already over £2 a litre in the UK, that's £9.08 a gallon, or $11.15 for you Americans who have the natural resources to drill for oil but are refusing to do so and instead going around your list of supposed enemies and deplorables to beg for more drilling from countries like Venezuela and Saudi Arabia. 

I don't know how one can compare the literal genocide of Yemenis by Saudi Arabia with the help of the USA, and the war between Russia due to NATO expansion and a US coup and still think the latter is the worse.

If serious heads in the EU stop warmongering and offering Ukraine support and adding more and more sanctions on Russia, we are only going to be the countries to suffer from high inflation. 

Russia has a surplus of cash and even Bloomberg admits Russia is winning at the moment in the economic war that has seen inflation reach double figures across the EU and NATO countries stupid enough to prove Putin right to all the Russians when he said that the west, US and Europe were anti-Russian.

The UK has seen the highest rise in inflation in 40 years with official figures at 9.1%. However, I doubt that is the real figure. Petrol is up from £1.30 from this time last year to £2 which is a lot more than 9% and I know that I paid £2.20 for a single Cornetto at the garage the other day, last year it would have cost me a quid!

That is more like a 50% rise in fuel and over 100% rise in costs of foods, either that or companies are taking advantage of the inflation to add on extra costs and make themselves a bit more money. Unilever makes Cornetto ice-creams, and the Garage was a Marks and Spencers BP, known to be more upmarket but not selling food at twice the cost it should be.

If this is the case then the Government should be auditing companies ASAP, fining any caught hiking prices up above any necessary increases and fining any that do huge sums of money if they are caught price gouging to increase company profits or executive wages. 

The money from any of these big fines, and they should be big, if the companies are big, should be used to reduce VAT or give tax rebates to normal people to help them with the high cost of living we are all facing due to the stupid sanctions war we have started with a country who we depend on for natural resources. Especially gas that is easily delivered by pipeline to our own shores. 

We need to give Putin an off ramp to both let him save face, a way to stop the punitive sanctions on Russia, and provide an incentive for Russia to stop its invasion. All whilst increasing Ukraine's chances at a peace negotiating table whilst more importantly helping us in Europe recover from the sanction blowback we caused for ourselves.

 As well as reducing the chances of the UK getting nuked in WW3. A thought that we may see as unlikely but one that abounds in Russian media through the tough talk from Russian generals and TV presenters suggesting the UK get wiped off the planet by Russian Satan nuclear missiles as a punishment for our interference in the Ukraine war. 

The thought that UK PM, Boris Johnson has probably just used the Ukraine crisis to deflect from his own problems, shooting off to Kyiv after a bad vote of confidence in parliament to act as a strong defender of Ukraine. Displayed rampant Russophobic comments, and made promises that only ensure Russia knows the UK was fully involved in the war helping Ukraine directly. 

This is a big red line for Russia that is too late to go back from, as we crossed it the minute we sent the SAS to teach saboteur tactics to Ukrainian forces, train Ukrainian regulars, plus sending multiple weapons that have probably killed many Russian soldiers and Eastern Ukrainian citizens.

Watch this latest video by the Duran and get some proper perspective on the on-goings in Ukraine and the EU, and how the US is likely to leave this Ukrainian war problem in Europe's lap as they go off and start an even worse event for the world, a war with China!

By Dark Politricks

©2022 Dark Politricks

Russia Recognises Breakaway Ukrainian Republics

Putin Sends Russian Troops Into Ukraine As "Peacekeepers"

By Dark Politricks

Late on Monday night 21st February 2022, Russia's leader Vladimir Putin, after pressure from both the heads of the breakaway Ukrainian Republics, and the Russian parliament, recognised the two breakaway Republics in Eastern Ukraine, Donetsk, and Luhansk, as independent sovereign nations, saying that it was an act that was overdue.

The leaders of the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics, Denis Pushilin and Leonid Pasechnik, had both asked Russian President Vladimir Putin to recognize the republics’ independence from Ukraine.

"On behalf of all of the people of the DPR, we are asking you to recognize the Donetsk People’s Republic as an independent, democratic and social state based on the rule of law," Denis Pushilin said.

Leonid Pasechnik added: "With the goal of preventing mass deaths among the republic’s civilian population, some 300,000 of whom are Russian citizens, I’m asking you to recognize the sovereignty and independence of the Lugansk People’s Republic."

Both leaders also suggested signing a treaty on friendship and cooperation with Russia, which included military cooperation.

This came as the 8-year civil war in Eastern Ukraine between the breakaway Republics and Western Ukrainians continued with heavy shelling along the contact line between Ukrainian soldiers and Russia-backed separatists, whilst thousands of people were being evacuated from eastern Ukraine to Russia, some of whom had apparently been paid $130 worth of Rubles to do so.

The shelling occurred despite the massive build-up of around 150,000 Russian soldiers along the border, and with warnings from NATO, the USA, and the EU, about heavy sanctions and dire consequences if they dared to invade Ukraine. 

The civil war has seen over 14,000 people killed and many atrocities committed by both sides. This has included the downing of the Malaysia MH17 flight, which saw 283 people killed including 80 children, and 15 crew members, and the burning down of the Odessa Trade Unions Building, where at least 36 separatists were burned to death by far-right nationalists. 

Frequent heavy shelling by the western forces and far-right militias have seen many towns in the breakaway republics reduced to rubble, with schools and even kindergartens struck by rockets, sometimes deliberately, such as this one in the settlement of Stanytsia Luhanska.

Speaking as part of a televised address to the nation on Monday evening, the Russian President, Vladimir Putin, signed the decree recognising the republics as independent states. He said that:

“I deem it necessary to make a decision that should have been made a long time ago to immediately recognize the Donetsk (DPR) and Lugansk (LPR) People’s Republics.” 

This came in a speech he gave in which he listed multiple reasons why the republics in the Donbass region of Ukraine should gain independence. These are the regions that have been fighting a war with the far-right Ukrainian government forces, that the USA helped install in the Maidan coup, during 2014.

Putin spoke about the regime now in control of Ukraine in which he slammed them for "extreme nationalism", "Nazism" and "Russophobia" pointing to the shutting down of Russian-language news outlets and laws he said that discriminated against Russian speakers in Ukraine..

The head of state also alleged that Kiev is sending saboteurs to target Russian infrastructure and attempting to "drag foreign states into conflict with our country". He also said that Ukraine's ambitions to join NATO would mean an "immediate threat of attack against our country." 

This decision was met with massive celebrations across the Donbass region of Ukraine with firework displays and Russian flag waving which you can watch on this link.

This comes after a period in which Russia had been trying to negotiate security terms with NATO over their constant expansion despite being a Cold War alliance, which both Russia and China have noted, is a war that is long over. Russia wanted assurances that NATO would deny membership to Ukraine and any other former Soviet countries, as well as to roll back the alliance's military deployments in Central and Eastern Europe.

This was not something NATO agreed to, and it set off the latest in a long line of developments which saw a massive build-up of Russian forces on the border of Ukraine, western nations removing diplomats and warning citizens to leave the country, and then yesterday the events that led to the UN Security Council meeting held late Monday night.

The day started off with news from Russia that FSB agents had stopped and killed five members of a Ukrainian sabotage group by FSB border guard forces for attempting to illegally cross the Russian border. This was either a ruse by NATO to goad Russia into attacking Ukraine, or the "false flag" attack that the US/UK Axis of War had been talking about for weeks. Either way, it has seemed to create the excuse that Russia has used for its actions.

Earlier in the day Putin reportedly told his security council it was "necessary to consider an appeal from the leaders of two breakaway regions in eastern Ukraine for Russia to recognize them as independent.", Putin had called the situation in Eastern Ukraine where fighting continues, a genocide and he considered the people of Ukraine part of Russia's heart and soul.  

"I would like to reiterate that Ukraine is just not our neighboring country. It’s an integral part of our history, culture, and spiritual space...they are comrades, dear ones, not just colleagues, not just those who used to serve in the army but also relatives. Those who tied up with us in family and blood ties."

He went on to criticize the US-led coup that has started this whole situation on his border: "Those who seized the power and keep the power in Kiev we demand to stop hostilities immediately. Otherwise, all responsibility for the possible continuation of the bloodbath will be on the consciences of the regime that is ruling in Kiev."

These were Putin's words as he later signed a historical document to recognise the two breakaway regions as independent statelets, defying western warnings that such a step would be illegal and kill off long-running peace negotiations. 

You can watch Putin signing the documents below. 

⚡️⚡️Putin signs historic decree on recognizing two Donbass republics in the presence of their heads pic.twitter.com/FKaphoS3zZ

— RT (@RT_com) February 21, 2022

While the treaties of friendship and cooperation between Russia and the newly recognized republics of Donetsk and Lugansk are still in the draft stage, the Russian State Duma still released the proposed documents on Monday, showing that they will include common defense against external aggression and the right to use each other’s military infrastructure, among other things.

However after the treaties were signed, Putin ordered the Russian military to “secure the peace” in the newly recognized Donetsk and Lugansk republics, and Russian troops started pouring into the regions.

Now we don't know what is going to happen next apart from a few things but I do hope the West, especially here in Europe where we are facing, rising heating costs doesn't do something stupid like stopping the Nordstream2 pipeline that has been built to bring extra and much-needed gas to Germany and Europe, without going through Ukraine. 

Their existing pipeline that runs through the country has been a constant source of grief between the two countries as Russia has constantly complained that Ukraine is not only stealing gas but owes them money for gas they have not paid for. 

Russia cut off the gas for a few days back in 2006 and 2009, after Russia accused Ukraine of diverting £14.5 million worth of gas intended for other European countries, and we ALL felt it. We do not want that to happen again.

Gazprom, Russia's state energy group, cut natural gas deliveries to Ukraine on 1st January 2009 after a long dispute over unpaid bills and prices for this year's supplies, and their chief spokesman, Sergei Kupriyanov, said Kiev is now threatening deliveries. 

"The Ukrainian side has openly admitted that it is stealing gas, and it is not even ashamed of this fact."

Last year, gas delivered to Europe through Ukrainian pipelines fell by 25% and fears of further disruptions have ramped up with the buildup of Russian troops near the Ukrainian border.

However, if Europe does not want Russia's gas, China certainly does and they have already signed a 30-year contract for Russia to supply China natural gas and will use euros instead of US Dollars for payment.

I think Russia would only be too happy to start delivering gas we could have had to China instead. Due to their close relationship and recent cutting down of transactions in US dollars from 90% to 51% in 2019, any financial sanctions put on Russia for this move will probably be negated by the fact that the world still needs their gas. 

Not only does the US buy Russian gas and oil (12-26 million barrels per month in 2021), as well as Europe, but as retaliation to any sanctions, Russia could also close their airspace to Western planes, quit the International Space Station, and decrease their use of the dollar for financial transactions even more.

The BRICS grouping of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa have already announced that the new BRICS New Development Bank will move away from using US dollars in loans, and will introduce the BRICSPay system to allow nationals of their countries to make payments in their own currencies to also avoid the US dollar.

So why is Russia doing this?

Well if anybody remembers recent history it was the US-led coup in Ukraine that removed a Russian-friendly corrupt leader only to replace him with a Western-friendly corrupt leader during the Maidan uprising that ignited recent troubles. 

The west helped to install a far-right government in Ukraine during 2014 and Ukraine's desire to leave the Russian sphere of influence, instead wanting to join both NATO and the EU, kicked the ball down the hill that has led to this point in time.

Anyone who knows World War II history doesn't need reminding that many Ukrainians, celebrated the German invasion of the USSR during Operation Barbarossa, and even joined up to fight the Soviets during their invasion into the USSR. Therefore the Russians rightly fear being invaded once more from Ukraine, and especially fear far-right NAZI's who killed 40 million+ men, women, and children during World War II.

The recent Ukrainian coup in 2014 was led by Victoria Nuland, US President Barack Obama's agent at least during the month of February when it climaxed. She was famously caught on a call saying "Fuck the EU", who were hoping for a democratic and less corrupt future government for Ukraine. 

Instead, Nuland instructed America's Ambassador in Ukraine, Jeffrey Pyatt to choose the rabidly anti-Russian, and far-right, Arseniy Yatsenyuk as the new President to run the now clearly fascist country on Russia's border. 

As you can see from this picture of some far-right Ukrainian soldiers during the coup who are openly proud of their NAZISM, they were only too happy to go off to the more Russian east to fight and kill the citizens that lived there.

Now to understand why Russia is so pissed off with NATO expansion and a future where Ukraine was a member of NATO, and why the US keeps pushing for NATO expansion, we need to go back to 1989 when the fall of the Berlin Wall occurred and then the fall of the Soviet Union.

Although many people have heard the broken promise of the then US Secretary of State James Baker who gave an assurance to Mikhail Gorbachev that NATO would not expand “not one inch eastward” during a meeting on February 9, 1990. Many have not realised who else gave the Soviets the same promise so that they would roll out of Eastern Europe.

Declassified documents now reveal that Gorbachev only accepted German reunification, which the Soviet Union had a legal right to veto under treaty from not only James Baker but also President George H.W. Bush, West German foreign minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher, West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, the CIA Director Robert Gates, French President Francois Mitterrand, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, British foreign minister Douglas Hurd, British Prime Minister John Major, and NATO secretary-general Manfred Woerner. 

So, one can imagine how angry the Russians must be with the current situation, having NATO bases all around them, with so many Western leaders breaking that promise not to expand, and facing the threat of Ukraine, the ex-Soviet Republic, joining NATO and having nuclear weapons on their border facing directly at them.

One must ask the obvious question. Why is it that the US thinks that it is so "exceptional", that it can impose its will through International bodies, banks, and its military on other countries?

It invades them under false pretences, with fake claims of "spreading democracy", or "Human Rights Abuses", and to those, it cannot invade, it imposes sanctions. Why does the US feel such a moral superiority when in fact they have spent the last 100+ years installing Right-Wing dictators and overthrowing left-wing governments all over the globe, and causing millions of deaths and executions from their US-trained death squads at the School of the Americas?

The USA would certainly not appreciate being surrounded by Russian or Chinese bases and having nuclear missiles faced at them as seen by the Cuba crisis in the '60s. However, they expect other countries that they constantly use as scapegoats for election losses, hack attempts, and Human Rights abuses to suffer the same indignation. 

When only weeks ago Russia said that it was considering deploying troops in Venezuela and Cuba amid growing U.S.-Russia tensions over Ukraine, the US went almost ballistic. U.S. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan told reporters that the United States would respond "decisively" if Russia were to actually send troops to those countries.

So it seems what is good for the goose is not good for the gander, and only the US and its NATO allies have the right to security, without worrying about countries they consider enemies, having troops, and possibly nuclear weapons near their own borders.

When you consider that Russia has been invaded 3 times from the west in the last 200+ years from Napolean, to World War 1 and 2, with the last invasion being NAZI's, with Ukrainian help, you can only realise why it is so important for Russia to feel secure in their borders and not have NATO pointing guns at them from their front door.

If Russia cannot get basic security guarantees from the west, and as history shows the only words they hear about NATO have been lies about not moving eastwards. Then you can only come to the conclusion that their latest actions of bringing troops into the newly independent statelets as peacekeepers, make perfect sense for them, whatever the cost that the US and its allies impose on them for them doing so.

Whether cool heads are used in this situation or hot-headed ones I can only hope for the former but fully expect the latter from recent western media reporting on the situation.

However, with Russia and China having such a close relationship, I would not be surprised if China also recognises these statelets at the UN meeting that has been called for by Ukraine, the United States, and six other countries. This meeting is currently being held, as the US and its allies talk about cutting Russia off from the US-controlled Swift International Banking system. 

However, the SWIFT banking system, as earlier noted, is something that Russia and China have been using less and less lately, as well as the petrodollar. They have decided instead to conduct transactions in their own currencies rather than allow the US to export its inflation across the globe as it prints trillions of dollars and increases its debt to points that cannot ever be paid off.

We can only wait and see what the response from the US and NATO is, and then the response Russia replies with. When it comes to playing strategic chess, I think Putin would easily beat Biden, and he would have considered all these potential sanctions and threats before he made his move earlier yesterday. 

You can read this article from last year in which Russia states that it is ready to be cut off from SWIFT, so I guess that they already have an alternative if that is part of the US response to Putin's actions. I only hope that it doesn't come at a too high cost for us in Europe as I am pretty sure the US doesn't care whether we spend the winter freezing if Russia cuts off our gas in retaliation. So I really hope they have a backup plan to keep Europe warm if Nord Stream 2 is not operational.

Update - Oct 1st 2022

The Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines have both been blown up causing a massive environmental disaster due to being full of gas. Of course, stupid fingers pointed at Russia who could have easily turned the taps off at Gazprom HQ but US ships were seen in the local area carrying out underwater exercises, and apparently, they wanted to de-industrialise their biggest partner in Europe, Germany, and stop their reliance on cheap Russian gas that made them a competitor to the US. 

Plus it removed any Russian leverage over the EU who may have wanted to not have thousands of people freeze to death this winter by turning the taps back on as many protests have been occurring in Germany by angry citizens all demanding to turn Nord Stream 2 on so that businesses wouldn't close, rolling blackouts would not occur and people who were going into the woods to chop down trees for old fashioned wood burning fires could stop.

By Dark Politricks

© 2022 Dark Politricks