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US cluster munitions will bring more pain and death to Donbass civilians, and Washington doesn’t care
Russia, Ukraine, USA

US cluster munitions will bring more pain and death to Donbass civilians, and Washington doesn’t care

Posted by: John Phoenix Kiev will use its newly received weapons to target residential areas, just as it has for the past nine years -by Eva K Bartlett August 1, 2023, RT.com The recent US decision to send cluster munitions to Ukraine is immoral, unethical, and criminal. We’ve already seen the horrific results of the use of such weapons – civilians mutilated and murdered (often decades later) in Iraq and Southeast Asia, for example, and in Lebanon. In addition to the ethical reasons not to send these weapons to Ukraine, there are pragmatic reasons why, from a military perspective. They are pointless for Ukraine, in spite of Western promises that they will “do more damage across a larger area than standard unitary artillery shells by releasing bom...
Why the Russia-US conflict will outlast the Ukraine crisis
Russia, Ukraine, USA

Why the Russia-US conflict will outlast the Ukraine crisis

Posted by: John Puonix Moscow must look at Washington as a long-term threat By Andrey Sushentsov, program director at the Valdai Club. ©  Andrea Nicolini / Getty Images The desire of the US to dominate and its refusal to see other countries as equals, willing and able to assume equal responsibility for peace and stability, is the short answer to the question of why Moscow-Washington relations cannot get out of the current state of crisis. This attitude also leads the US to the same difficulties in its relations with China, India and even some of its own allies, such as Turkey.  The Russian and Chinese position is buttressed by the principle that peace is the result of compromise between the major centers of power, and that without their mutual agreem...
Trump advisers present plan to push Ukraine into peace talks with Russia
Russia, Ukraine, USA, ZIO-NAZI

Trump advisers present plan to push Ukraine into peace talks with Russia

Posted by: John Phoenix By:  Ahmed Adel VT Condemns the ETHNIC CLEANSING OF PALESTINIANS by USA/Israel $ 280 BILLION US TAXPAYER DOLLARS INVESTED since 1948 in US/Israeli Ethnic Cleansing and Occupation Operation; $ 150B direct "aid" and $ 130B in "Offense" contractsSource: Embassy of Israel, Washington, D.C. and US Department of State. The advisors of former US President Donald Trump have prepared a plan to cut support for Ukraine if Kiev continues to refuse negotiations with Russia and if the billionaire wins this year’s presidential election. According to one of the advisors, they were “pleased” with Trump’s response to their plan. “We tell the Ukrainians, ‘You’ve got to come to the table, and if you don’t come to the table, support from the...
Russia retaliates against EU’s latest media ban
Europe, Russia

Russia retaliates against EU’s latest media ban

RT | June 25, 2024 Russia is restricting access to more than 80 EU media outlets on its territory that have been involved in spreading disinformation about the Ukraine conflict, the Russian Foreign Ministry announced on Tuesday. According to a statement issued on the ministry’s website, the move comes in response to the EU’s latest crackdown on Russian media. In May, the European Council banned four media outlets from reporting to audiences in the EU, including leading Russian news agency RIA Novosti, as well as newspapers Izvestia and Rossiyskaya Gazeta. The ban also applies to the relatively small Czech-based portal Voice of Europe, which the EU has described as a “Kremlin-linked propaganda network.” The restrictions on the media ou...
Pentagon has ‘nothing to say’ about strike on Crimean beach with US-supplied weapons
Russia, Ukraine, USA

Pentagon has ‘nothing to say’ about strike on Crimean beach with US-supplied weapons

Posted by: John Phoenix RT The Pentagon has refused to comment on the deadly Ukrainian cluster munition attack on a crowded beach in Sevastopol, Russia on Sunday, RIA Novosti has reported. The Ukrainian attack carried out with US-supplied ATACMS missiles killed at least four people, among them two children, and injured 151, according to local officials. Four missiles were intercepted by air defenses, while a fifth deviated from its trajectory and detonated its cluster warhead over the busy Black Sea beach, the Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement on Sunday. When RIA asked the Pentagon about the use of US supplied weapons in the strike on Sunday, an official replied, “we have seen the reports and have nothing to say.” Moscow has pla...
UK insurers refuse to pay Nord Stream because blasts were ‘government’ backed
Russia, United Kingdom

UK insurers refuse to pay Nord Stream because blasts were ‘government’ backed

WYATT REED The legal team representing high-powered insurers Lloyd’s and Arch says that since the Nord Stream explosions were “more likely than not to have been inflicted by… a government,” they have no responsibility to pay for damages to the pipelines. To succeed with that defense, the companies will presumably be compelled to prove, in court, who carried out those attacks.  British insurers are arguing that they have no obligation to honor their coverage of the Nord Stream pipelines, which were blown up in September 2022, because the unprecedented act of industrial sabotage was likely carried out by a national government. The insurers’ filing contradicts reports the Washington Post and other legacy media publications asserting that a private Ukrainian team was res...
Russia-EU trade dips to near 25-year low
Europe, Russia

Russia-EU trade dips to near 25-year low

Posted by: John Phoenix Official statistics have revealed a dramatic drop in bilateral commerce © Getty Images / Westend61 Trade turnover between Russia and the European Union has continued to fall amid Western sanctions against Moscow, tumbling to nearly a quarter-century low as of the end of April, RIA Novosti reported on Wednesday, citing Eurostat data. The cited statistics show that mutual trade has plunged to its lowest level since January 2000, to €5.6 billion. The figure also marked a month-on-month decrease of 6%. Exports of Russian goods to the EU in April dropped by 17% from the previous month, to €2.7 billion, plummeting to their lowest level since June 1999. The report said that Russia mainly sold natural gas to the EU, although supplies decreas...
US-supplied F-16s to be stationed inside Ukraine – White House
Russia

US-supplied F-16s to be stationed inside Ukraine – White House

Posted by: John Phoenix Vladimir Zelensky and President Joe Biden had previously signed a bilateral security agreement on the fighter jets FILE PHOTO. F-16 Fighter jet. © Getty Images / Greg Mathieson;  Mai F-16 warplanes transferred to Kiev by Washington will be stationed on Ukrainian territory, US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan has announced in an interview with PBS news channel. He revealed the plan after US President Joe Biden and Vladimir Zelensky signed a ten-year bilateral security agreement last week, under which Washington has pledged to continue backing Kiev in its conflict with Moscow. Zelensky announced after the deal was signed that the US had promised to supply Ukraine not only with weapons, including Patriot air-defe...
Putin’s state visit to North Korea: Warm welcome, bilateral agreements and a new comprehensive partnership treaty
North Korea, Russia

Putin’s state visit to North Korea: Warm welcome, bilateral agreements and a new comprehensive partnership treaty

Posted by: John Phoenix Moscow and Pyongyang have agreed to enhance cooperation in all spheres and defend each other from potential foreign aggression Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un ©  Kristina Kormilitsyna;  RIA Novosti Russian President Vladimir Putin paid a state visit to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea on Wednesday, where he met with the country’s leader Kim Jong-un and participated in comprehensive bilateral talks on economic, security, and global issues. The trip marked the first time the Russian president had traveled to North Korea since first taking office in 2000, when he visited Pyongyang to meet with then-leader Kim Jong-il. Putin’s delegation included Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, Defense...
US surprised at speed Russia built new alliances
Russia, USA

US surprised at speed Russia built new alliances

Posted by: John Phoenix Washington reportedly did not see Moscow’s outreach to Beijing and Pyongyang coming Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un attend a reception in Pyongyang, June 19, 2024 ©  Sputnik / Vladimir Smirnov Moscow’s security partnerships with Beijing, Pyongyang and other US “adversaries” were not anticipated by Washington, the Wall Street Journal has reported, citing anonymous intelligence sources. Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a strategic partnership and mutual defense treaty with the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea on Wednesday, before flying on to Vietnam. Putin’s trip to China last month prompted one US policymaker to declare that decades of American efforts to k...