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Exposing US Terrorism--Part Of A Plan To Remove Zhou? Mark Wauck In the wake of Seymour Hersh’s bombshell reporting on the US terror attack on German-Russian civilian energy infrastructure—i.e., the sabotage attack on the Nordstream 2 pipeline—Tom Luongo goes for the Big Picture: Tom Luongo (The Bots Have Returned!) @TFL1728 Who installed "Biden" ?? Who put together his Nat Sec. Team? Why are they provoking WWIII? Who benefits from the US getting into a war with Russia? These are the questions strongly implied by Hersh's article. /4 5:43 PM ∙ Feb 8, 2023 88 Likes 24 Retweets These are interesting questions because one thing that becomes clear from Hersh’s reporting is that not everyone who was “in the loop” on the planning for the terror attack was on board with it. Some considered it “stupid” and reckless. In other words, a typical Neocon scheme. But in terms of the Big Picture, also consider these tweets, which have their counterpart in Hersh’s article: Tom Luongo...

A Tale of Three Cities Washington’s Hypocrisy on its “Rules Based International Order” PHILIP GIRALDI   One might actually be willing to consider that there might be some value in the “rules based international order” being promoted by the Joe Biden Administration if such a thing actually existed and was applied equally to all transgressors. Of course, in reality, the “rules” being referred to are neither agreed upon nor driven by any broad international consensus and are merely a trick that is exploited to further the interests of the United States and its closest allies. In fact, the “rules”, such as they are, are most frequently ignored to give a pass to the bad behavior being exhibited by the US and its friends. If the “rules” were actually intended to place limits on violent interactions among nations, consider for a moment the actual record of the United States in that regard. Recent opinion polls demonstrate that the US by a large margin is considered by other nations to be ...

Farcically disarmed Europe struggles to scrape together a few odd tanks to send to Ukraine eugyppius Over a week ago, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz  caved to enormous international pressure and agreed to supply German Leopard tanks to Ukraine , and also to authorise the export of Leopards held by other countries to our easternmost neighbour. What has followed is a great, deafening silence, because the truth is that in Europe we have hardly any tanks to spare. The plan is to supply two Ukrainian battalions with a total of 62 Leopards; Germany would supply half, but in the near-term can commit only 14. Poland for its part has pledged 12, and Canada 4. Otherwise, “ there are very few concrete commitments ”: Even partners who earlier pledged tanks to the Ukrainians are now quiet. This seems to confirm Scholz’s suspicion that some public promises were made only to pressure Germany… The Swedish government pleads that on 19 January it already committed to supply 50  Combat Vehicle 90...