A year ago, NY Post published a photograph of “Corrupt Joe” Biden posing with Hunter Biden and Kenes Rakishev, a Kazakh oligarch who reportedly worked with the former veep’s scandal-scarred son. The photo, first published by a Kazakhstani anti-corruption website in 2019, shared by the Kazhakhstani Initiative on Asset Recovery, the former vice president canContinue reading “Maidan 2.0?”
Category Archives: Geopolitics
Ball. Court. Germany: how do you like those 2000EURs/month heating bills?
Gold, Goats, and Guns: https://tomluongo.me/2021/10/06/european-energy-crisis-gas-you-think-burning/ The European Gas Crisis keeps hitting new high after new high as gas prices around the world go ballistic. While this isn’t just a European problem, if you read the MSM, that’s all they seem to care about. You know, it snows in Japan as well folks, and China.Continue reading “Ball. Court. Germany: how do you like those 2000EURs/month heating bills?”
Alexander Solzhenitsyn: “Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.”
OpenTheBooks.com, as presented in Forbes: https://www.forbes.com/sites/adamandrzejewski/2021/08/17/10-us-investments-in-afghanistan-that-didnt-pan-out/ 10 U.S. Investments In Afghanistan That Didn’t Pan Out Adam Andrzejewski Senior Contributor Policy Follow Recently, our auditors at OpenTheBooks.com reported that Afghanistan topped the list of 170 counties receiving U.S. foreign aid. In FY2018 (the latest year available), Afghanistan received $6 billion in direct foreign aid alone. Since 2001, totalContinue reading “Alexander Solzhenitsyn: “Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.””
Die Deutschen brauchen das Gas. Or, if you prefer …Немцам нужен газ
Here’s Tom Luongo spelling out the obvious: https://tomluongo.me/2021/07/24/nordstream-2s-hard-lesson-in-reality-for-everyone/ Nordstream 2’s Hard Lesson in Reality for Everyone For more than six years everyone who is anyone in a politically sensitive position in Europe and the U.S. has wrung their hands over the Nordstream 2 pipeline. From the moment it was announced the howls of pain couldContinue reading “Die Deutschen brauchen das Gas. Or, if you prefer …Немцам нужен газ”
Will there be blood?
Simon Watkins explains some oil realities: https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/The-Real-Reason-Oil-Prices-Arent-At-80.html The Real Reason Oil Prices Aren’t At $80 By Simon Watkins – Jul 21, 2021, 8:00 PM CDTTrade Oil Futures And Energy Stocks The UAE’s awarding last week of a slew of huge drilling contracts aimed at increasing its crude oil output capacity from around 4 million barrels per dayContinue reading “Will there be blood?”
Циркон
Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3M22_Zircon Zircon is believed to be a maneuvering, winged hypersonic cruise missile with a lift-generating center body. A booster stage with solid-fuel engines accelerates it to supersonic speeds, after which a scramjet motor with liquid-fuel (JP-10 Jet fuel) in the second stage accelerates it to hypersonic speeds. The missile’s range is estimated to beContinue reading “Циркон”
Безопасность
Pepe Escobar in Zero Hedge explains the obvious: https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/escobar-why-russia-driving-west-crazy Why Russia Is Driving The West Crazy Future historians may register it as the day when usually unflappable Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov decided he had had enough: We are getting used to the fact that the European Union is trying to impose unilateral restrictions, illegitimateContinue reading “Безопасность”
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