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: Russia
BTC – the Biden Trade
ZH: https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/biden-mulls-cutting-russia-swift-ahead-putin-call-nuclear-option-response-ukraine With the United States cutting back its own oil production in the name of “climate”, and fueling double-digit inflation, why would we consider shooting ourselves in the foot over Ukraine? Well, maybe Hunter Biden knows – he’s pulled enough dough out of Ukraine’s oligarchs for himself with “10% for the Big Guy.” OneContinue reading “BTC – the Biden Trade”
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?”
Unpacking the Russia Lie
ZeroHedge: https://www.zerohedge.com/political/atlantics-franklin-foer-allegedly-identified-reporter-2-sussmann-indictment The Atlantic’s Franklin Foer Allegedly Identified As “Reporter-2” In The Sussmann Indictment BY TYLER DURDENSATURDAY, SEP 18, 2021 – 01:30 PM Authored by Jonathan Turley, I have a column today in the Hill on the indictment of former Clinton campaign lawyer Michael Sussmann by Special Counsel John Durham. The indictment fills in a great numberContinue reading “Unpacking the Russia Lie”
Punching Above Their Weight
Comfort, luxury, and air superiority can be yours at the low, low price of $30 million/copy Strategic Culture Foundation: https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2021/07/27/what-week-did-russia-achieve-check-mate-with-its-latest-introduction-cutting-edge-weapon-systems/ Robert BridgeJuly 27, 2021 Russia has, in just one week, upped the military ante to such a degree that long-term peace in this part of the world is a very tempting thought. While it remainsContinue reading “Punching Above Their Weight”
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”
Crimea 2.0
“Forward, the Light Brigade!”Was there a man dismayed?Not though the soldier knew Someone had blundered. Theirs not to make reply, Theirs not to reason why, Theirs but to do and die. Into the valley of Death Rode the six hundred. Immortalized by Tennyson in his 1854 poem “The Charge of the Light Brigade” published in The Examiner, praising the brigade (“When canContinue reading “Crimea 2.0”
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”
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
Ironic that John le Carre passed last week. Let’s revisit some dialog from the epic screenplay for his “Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy”: CONTROL: “Shut up, Esterhase.” Control waves him down. Smiley considers the report dispassionately.SMILEY: “If it’s genuine it’s gold-dust.(Beat) But its topicality makes it suspect.” Control turns to Alleline, with a mocking smile.CONTROL: “SmileyContinue reading “Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy”
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