IT -- Manlio Dinucci -- L' arte della guerra -- Afghanistan, il piano Usa di una nuova catastrofe

 

Afghanistan, il piano Usa di una nuova catastrofe

di Manlio Dinucci

Il presidente Biden ha annunciato il ritiro delle truppe USA dall’Afghanistan, ufficialmente contro il parere dei suoi generali. In realtà, meno di un quinto delle forze americane sul campo sarà ritirato, mentre saranno installate nuove basi un po’ ovunque. Il dispositivo militare destinato a controllare il Paese ne risulterà potenziato. Quanto alle truppe che lasceranno l’Afghanistan, non torneranno in patria, ma saranno ricollocate in Siria e Iraq.

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Il generale Scott Miller, comandante delle forze Usa e alleate in Afghanistan, ha annunciato il 25 aprile l’inizio del ritiro delle truppe straniere che, secondo quanto deciso dal presidente Biden, dovrebbe essere ultimato entro l’11 settembre. Gli Usa terminano così la guerra condotta per quasi vent’anni? Per capirlo, occorre anzitutto fare un bilancio dei risultati della guerra.

Il bilancio in vite umane è in gran parte inquantificabile: le «morti dirette» tra i militari Usa ammonterebbero a circa 2.500, e i feriti gravi a oltre 20.000. I contractor (i mercenari Usa) uccisi sarebbero circa 4.000, più un numero imprecisato di feriti. Le perdite tra i militari afghani ammonterebbero a circa 60.000. Le morti di civili sono di fatto incalcolabili: secondo le Nazioni Unite, sarebbero state circa 100.000 in soli dieci anni. Impossibile determinare le «morti indirette» per povertà e malattie, provocate dalle conseguenze sociali ed economiche della guerra.

PT -- LARRY ROMANOFF -- Parte 1 de 5 -- Bernays e a Propaganda -- February 06, 2021

  

Bernays e a Propaganda - Parte 1 de 5

 

Por Larry Romanoff para The Saker Blog, February 06, 2021

 

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Há muitos anos, o comentador político judeu americano Walter Lippmann percebeu que a ideologia política podia ser completamente fabricada, ao utilizar os meios de comunicação social para controlar tanto a apresentação, como a conceptualização, não só para criar crenças falsas profundamente enraizadas numa população, mas também para apagar completamente ideias políticas indesejáveis da mente pública. Este foi o início não só da histeria americana pela liberdade, democracia e patriotismo, como também de toda a opinião política fabricada, um processo que tem sido infalível desde então. Lippmann criou estas teorias de persuasão em massa do público, utilizando "factos" totalmente fabricados, profundamente insinuados na mente de um público ingénuo, mas há muito mais nesta história. Um judeu austríaco chamado Edward Louis Bernays, que era sobrinho do psicanalista Sigmund Freud, foi um dos estudantes mais precoces de Lippmann e foi ele que pôs em prática as teorias de Lippmann. Bernays é amplamente conhecido na América como o pai das Relações Públicas, mas seria muito melhor descrevê-lo como sendo o pai do marketing de guerra americano, bem como o pai da manipulação em massa, da mentalidade do povo americano.

 

Russian official statements about counter-actions to US sanctions

 

Russian official statements about counter-actions to US sanctions

 

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Foreign Ministry statement on measures in response to hostile US actions

The latest attack by the Biden administration against our country cannot go unanswered. It seems Washington is unwilling to accept that there is no room for unilateral dictates in the new geopolitical reality. Meanwhile, the bankrupt scenarios for deterring Moscow that the US myopically continues to pursue only promise to further degrade Russian-US relations.

In this context, the appeals from across the ocean to refrain from escalation and essentially accept this attempt to talk to us from a position of strength sound hypocritical. We have repeatedly warned and demonstrated in practice that sanctions and any other pressure will never succeed and will only have dire consequences for those who dare attempt such provocations.

We will introduce the following countermeasures in response to anti-Russian sanctions in the near future:

•  Employees of US diplomatic missions will be expelled on a reciprocal basis in numbers proportional to the actions taken by the US authorities against Russian diplomats.
• Incidentally, we noted how quickly Warsaw played up to the US administration by demanding the departure of three Russian diplomats from Poland. In turn, five Polish diplomats will be expelled from Russia.
•  The US Embassy’s practice of using short-term trips by State Department staff to support the functioning of diplomatic missions will be restricted. The issuance of visas to them will be reduced to a minimum: up to 10 people per year on a reciprocal basis.
•  In strict conformity with the Vienna conventions on diplomatic relations and Russian law, including the Labour Code, measures will be taken to discontinue completely the practice of US diplomatic missions employing citizens of the Russian Federation and third countries as administrative and technical staff.
•  The bilateral 1992 memorandum of understanding on open ground is declared invalid due to systematic violations of rules for trips in the Russian Federation by employees of US diplomatic missions.
•  Plans are in place to halt the activities in the Russian Federation of American foundations and NGOs controlled by the Department of State and other US government agencies. These consistent, long-term efforts will be brought to an end, all the more so since the United States shows no intention of scaling back its systematic subversive efforts underpinned by a wide array of laws.
•  Obviously, this very tense situation objectively requires the ambassadors of our countries to be in their respective capitals to analyse developments and hold consultations.

These steps represent just a fraction of the capabilities at our disposal. Unfortunately, US statements threatening to introduce new forms of punishment show that Washington is not willing to listen and does not appreciate the restraint that we have displayed despite the tensions that have been purposefully fuelled since the presidency of Barack Obama.

Recall that after a large-scale expulsion of Russian diplomats in December 2016 and the seizure of Russian diplomatic property in the US, we did not take any response measures for seven months. We responded only when Russia was declared a US adversary legislatively in August 2017.

In general, compared to the Russian diplomatic missions in the United States, the US Embassy in Moscow operates in better conditions, enjoying a numerical advantage and actively benefitting from the work of Russian citizens hired in-country. This form of disparity frees up “titular” diplomats to interfere in our domestic affairs, which is one of the main tenets of Washington’s foreign policy doctrine.

Incidentally, soon the Foreign Ministry will publish on its website the names of eight incumbent and former high-ranking US officials and other figures involved in drafting and implementing anti-Russia policy. They will be permanently banned from entering the Russian Federation. This is our equivalent response to the sanctions against Russian officials that the US blacklisted last month.

Now is the time for the United States to show common sense and pull back from this confrontational course. Otherwise, the US will face a host of painful decisions, for instance, an order for US diplomatic missions to reduce personnel in Russia to 300 people. This will establish real parity at bilateral foreign offices because the US quota of 455 employees still includes the 155 people sent to the Russian Permanent Mission to the UN in New York. However, this has nothing to do with our bilateral mission.

There are also other options. Of course, we realise that we are limited in our ability to squeeze the Americans economically as they have us. However, we have some resources in this respect and they will also be used if Washington chooses to follow the path of spiraling sanctions.

None of this is our choice. We would like to avoid further escalation with the US. We are ready to engage in calm and professional dialogue with the US in order to find ways of normalising bilateral ties. However, the reality is that we hear one thing from Washington but see something completely different in practice. There must be no doubt – not a single round of sanctions will go unanswered.

We have obviously heard President Joe Biden express interest in stable, constructive and predictable relations with Russia, including a proposed Russian-US summit. When this offer was made, it was received positively and is now being considered in the context of concrete developments.

Press release on a ban on entry of certain US citizens into the Russian Federation

In response to the sanctions against Russian officials imposed by the US administration on March 2 of this year, the following incumbent and former US high-ranking officials and figures complicit in pursuing the anti-Russia policy, are denied entry to the Russian Federation:

1. Merrick Brian Garland, United States Attorney General;
2. Michael D. Carvajal, Director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons;
3. Alejandro Nicholas Mayorkas, United States Secretary of Homeland Security;
4. Susan Elizabeth Rice, Director of the United States Domestic Policy Council, former US Permanent Representative to the United Nations and National Security Advisor;
5. Christopher Asher Wray, Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation;
6. Avril Danica Haines, Director of US National Intelligence.

In addition, entry is denied to John Robert Bolton, former National Security Advisor to the United States President, former US Permanent Representative to the United Nations, and Robert James Woolsey Jr., former director of the US Central Intelligence Agency.

In view of the unprecedented complications in Russia-US relations provoked by Washington, it was decided to deviate from the usual practice of not making public the response measures taken by the Russian side.

PT -- The Saker -- Os planos dos Estados Unidos para a Ucrânia -- April 16, 2021

 

The Saker -- Os planos dos Estados Unidos para a Ucrânia

(LINHA ABERTA # 12) ACTUALIZAÇÃO

 

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Francamente, o discurso de Biden à nação americana (o primeiro da sua vida) foi, provavelmente, o discurso político mais lamechas que alguma vez ouvi.  E não estou a referir-me ao facto de Biden chamar a Putin "Clutin" ou confundir "deescalation" com "vaccination", estou a referir do conteúdo verdadeiro do seu discurso.  Resumindo: continuaremos a magoar-vos e a humilhar-vos constantemente, tratar-vos-emos como uma criança mal educada de 10 anos a precisar de uma boa palmada, mas queremos paz e um bom relacionamento.  É evidente que Biden não percebe nada dos conceitos russos.  Mas para "Biden" (o colectivo "Biden", não o vegetariano confuso) existe um plano.  Qual poderá ser?

 

Já expliquei qual é o plano dos EUA em relação à Ucrânia: encorajar os Ukronazis a atacar, sem envolver os EUA numa guerra convencional com a Rússia.

Como é que os EUA procederiam?  Um exemplo:

THE SAKER -- The US warplans for the Ukraine (OPEN THREAD # 12) UPDATED

 

The US warplans for the Ukraine (OPEN THREAD # 12) UPDATED

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Frankly, Biden’s address to the US nation (the first one in his life) was probably the lamest most clueless political speech I ever heard.  And I am not referring to Biden calling Putin “Clutin” or confusing “deescalation” with “vaccination”, I am talking about the actual contents of his speech.  I would sum it up as so: we will continue to constantly hurt and humiliate you, we will treat you like a misbehaving 10 year old in need of a good spanking, but we do want peace and good relations.  Clearly, Biden has zero understanding of things Russian.  But for “Biden” (collective “Biden”, no the confused veggie) does have a plan.  What could it be?

I already explained what the US plan for the Ukraine is: to encourage the Ukronazis to attack Russia while not involving the USA in a shooting war with Russia.

How would the US do that?  One example:

First announce with great fanfare that the US is sending 2 (according to some version 5!) USN ship into the Black Sea to “deter” Russia, show “support” to the Ukies and give them the feeling that when they attack they would be under US “cover”.  This is not unlike what the USA did with Saakashvili in 08.08.08 or what the USA did during the “Prague Spring”.  Frankly, this is an old trick the West has used innumerable times in its history.  And once the Ukies feel elated from being under Uncle Shmuel’s protection, quietly withdraw your plan to send any ships into what is de facto a Russian lake.

The US is walking a fine line here – they need to egg on the Ukies to attack, but the Ukies are terrified, so they have to give them as sense of “the world is with you!!”, “we will protect you”, “we will fight with you” and then when things appear to be coming to a head, ditch the Ukies and run to safety.  Of course, the united West will support the Ukronazis politically and economically (just to keep the Ukie economy barely alive), but most definitely not militarily as that would create a risk of a devastating war which the US+NATO would either lose or decide to go nuclear, which would be simply suicidal.

There is a chorus profoundly misguided opinions in both Russia and the West which now declares that Biden “blinked”, Russia won and peace will now break out.  That is a very naive point of view which mostly comes from not understanding the nature of modern warfare and psychological operations.

Again, what some can see as a zig-zagging “Biden” policy towards Russia mistakenly think that since “Biden” did not promise fire and brimstone for Russia that means that “Biden” folded.  That is an extremely dangerous misconception and I am confident that the Russian decision-makers see through this ruse (even while they say nothing about it, at least, those in office and, at least, so far).

Putin has still not announced what counter-measures (I prefer that notion to the idea of counter-sanctions, which are symmetrical) Russia will take next (against the US, UK and Poland primarily).  I have no idea what the Kremlin might decide, but I do observe very high levels of outrage and determination in the Russian media (both in the traditional media and the Runet).  The Russian society is clearly fed up and, again, Putin if facing a mounting levels of criticisms for being too soft and indecisive.  I hope and expect that Russia’s response this time around will be much less meek (and, therefore, ambiguous) than in the past.   We will soon find out.

The Saker

UPDATE: just as I was posting this, I saw the Sputnik article about the Russian counter-measures.  Frankly, I am utterly unimpressed and I believe that most Russians will feel the same way.  Of course, we don’t know what is going on behind the scenes and the Russians are under no obligation to divulge what else they might be doing.  However, I believe that measures such as closing the Kerch strait is a much better approach.  Let’s wait a few days before passing a final judgement on the quality of the Russian counter measures.

THE SAKER -- The latest US moves against Russia (OPEN THREAD #11) UPDATED!!!/ PT -- As últimas movimentações contra a Rússia

 

The latest US moves against Russia 

(OPEN THREAD #11) UPDATED!!!

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Bad news all around today.  The US has just slammed provocative sanctions against Russia even though the US ambassador to Moscow was summoned to the Foreign Ministry and clearly told that if the US imposes more sanctions there will be no meeting between Putin and Biden.

Then there is this: the US has informed the Turkish authorities that they will not send two USN ships into the Black Sea.  This is politically a good sign, but in military terms, this is what the US should be doing if they were preparing for war.  Why?  Because any USN ship in the Black Sea at the moment of the initiation of a conflict would be sunk withing minutes: not only do the Russians have formidable missiles – Bal and Bastion – they had SIX advanced diesel-electric submarines of the 636.3 class ready to “greet” them.  Keep in mind that engaging submarines without air cover is another form of collective suicide.

So, the phone call was a deception and the US is still going down the road towards war with Russia.

In my professional opinion, what I see is a joint preparation by the Ukronazis and the USA (along with the UK and Poland) to attack the Donbass and force a conflict upon Russia.

Considering the extreme nature of these developments, I am reopening an open thread.

The Saker

PS: as for the Ukronazis, they have just used their heavy artillery (banned by the Minsk Agreements) to murder another civilian in his home.  They were apparently trying to disable an electric station (a typical move by US-trained militaries before an attack).

It is very hard for me to see how a war could be avoided.

UPDATE: Biden has just declared a national emergency in the USA in response to the Russian threat.  He will make a special address to the nation tonight.

As Últimas Movimentações Contra a Rússia

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Hoje há más notícias em todo o lado.  Os EUA acabam de impor sanções ostensivas contra a Rússia, apesar do Embaixador dos EUA, em Moscovo, ter sido convocado para comparecer  no Ministério dos Negócios Estrangeiros e ter-lhe sido dito claramente, que se os EUA impuserem mais sanções, não haverá uma  conferência entre Putin e Biden.

Depois há o seguinte: os EUA informaram as autoridades turcas de que não irão enviar dois navios USN para o Mar Negro.  Politicamente, é um bom sinal, mas em termos militares, é o que os EUA deveriam estar a fazer se se estivessem a preparar para a guerra.  Porquê?  Porque qualquer navio da Marinha Americana no Mar Negro, no momento do início de um conflito, seria afundado em minutos: os russos não têm só mísseis formidáveis - Bal e Bastion - como também SEIS submarinos diesel-eléctricos avançados da classe 636.3 prontos a "cumprimentá-los".  Tenham em consideração que o envolvimento de submarinos sem cobertura aérea, é outra forma de suicídio colectivo.

Portanto, o telefonema foi um engodo e os EUA continuam a seguir o caminho da guerra com a Rússia.

De acordo com a minha opinião profissional, o que vejo é uma preparação conjunta dos Ukronazis e dos EUA (juntamente com o Reino Unido e a Polónia) destinada a atacar o Donbass e a forçar um conflito com a Rússia.

Considerando a natureza extrema destes desenvolvimentos, estou a reactivar uma linha aberta.

The Saker

PS: quanto aos Ukronazis, acabam de utilizar a artilharia pesada (proibida pelos Acordos de Minsk) para assassinar outro civil em sua casa. Tentavam, visivelmente, desactivar uma central eléctrica (um movimento típico dos militares treinados pelos EUA antes de um ataque).

Para mim é muito difícil ver como se poderia evitar uma guerra.

ACTUALIZAÇÃO: Biden acaba de declarar uma emergência nacional nos EUA em resposta à ameaça russa.  Fará esta noite, um discurso especial à nação.

China’s economy sees record growth after Covid-19 pandemic slump

 

China’s economy sees record growth after Covid-19 pandemic slump

16 Apr, 2021 07:50

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The Chinese economy has shaken off the aftermath of the coronavirus crisis, expanding at a record pace of 18.3% in the first three months of 2021 compared to a year ago.

The figures for the country’s economic performance were published by China’s National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) on Friday. The over 18-percent surge became the best quarterly growth since at least 1992 when quarterly gross domestic product (GDP) records began. The results were largely in line with the expectations of economists polled by Bloomberg, who predicted GDP would jump by 18.5%. However, some expected China's economic output would be even higher, with analysts polled by Reuters predicting a 19% increase.

Caitlin Johnstone: Intelligence sources say biggestthreat to US is actually US policy

 

Caitlin Johnstone: Intelligence sources say biggestthreat to US is actually US policy

15 Apr, 2021 17:34 / Updated 9 hours ago

By Caitlin Johnstone, an independent journalist based in Melbourne, Australia. Her website is here and you can follow her on Twitter @caitoz

A new “threat assessment” by the US intelligence cartel has named China the number one threat to the United States today, followed by Russia, Iran and North Korea.

This has of course led to blaring news headlines like “China poses the biggest threat to the US, a new intelligence report says” from The New York Times, instead of something a little less propagandistic like “Here’s who the CIA wants you to be afraid of in order to advance its geostrategic power agendas.”

The report makes a bunch of evidence-free assertions which serve no purpose other than to help manufacture consent for the movement of expensive weaponry around the globe at the facilitation of unscrupulous war propaganda firms like The New York Times. Not only that, but I can now report that this US intelligence threat assessment is squarely contradicted by my own intelligence source.

ERIC ZUESSE -- U.S. Gov’t. Walks Back Lie Against Russia But Says that Russia Must Be Apologizing

 

 

U.S. Gov’t. Walks Back Lie Against Russia 

But Says that Russia Must Be Apologizing

 

Eric Zuesse, April 16th, 2021

 

On April 15th, the Biden Administration, which has been saying that Russia probably placed a “bounty” on corpses of U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan, said that, actually, “U.S. intelligence only had ‘low to moderate’ confidence in the story,” but “This information puts a burden on the Russian government to explain its actions and take steps to address this disturbing pattern of behavior.” For good measure, the U.S. Government has now added yet more sanctions against Russia.

 

Adam Rawnsley and Spencer Ackerman of The Daily Beast headlined on the 15th, “U.S. Intel Walks Back Claim Russians Put Bounties on American Troops”, and reported that “Translated from the jargon of spyworld, that [statement from the Biden Administration] means the intelligence agencies have found the story is, at best, unproven — and possibly untrue.”

 

This lie had first been broadcasted on the front page of the New York Times on 26 June 2020, under the headline “Russia Secretly Offered Afghan Militants Bounties to Kill U.S. Troops, Intelligence Says”, and they reported that:

 

American intelligence officials have concluded that a Russian military intelligence unit secretly offered bounties to Taliban-linked militants for killing coalition forces in Afghanistan — including targeting American troops — amid the peace talks to end the long-running war there, according to officials briefed on the matter. The United States concluded months ago that the Russian unit, which has been linked to assassination attempts and other covert operations in Europe intended to destabilize the West or take revenge on turncoats, had covertly offered rewards for successful attacks last year.

 

PT -- Manlio Dinucci -- A Arte da Guerra -- Ucrânia, a bomba USA na Europa

 

A Arte da Guerra

Ucrânia, a bomba USA na Europa

Manlio Dinucci

 

Os caças americanos F-16, enviados da base de Aviano, estão envolvidos em "operações aéreas complexas" na Grécia, onde ontem começou o exercício Iniochos 21. Pertencem ao 510º Esquadrão de Caças estacionado em Aviano, cuja atribuição está indicada no seu emblema: o símbolo do átomo, com três relâmpagos a atingir a terra, flanqueado pela águia imperial. São aviões de ataque nuclear  e que pertencem à Força Aérea Americana na Grécia, que concedeu aos Estados Unidos, em 2020, a utilização de todas as suas bases militares. Também participam no Iniochos 21 os caças bombardeiros  F-16 e F-15 de Israel e dos Emirados Árabes Unidos. O exercício ocorre no Mar Egeu, perto da área que compreende o Mar Negro e a Ucrânia, onde se concentra o mega exercício Defender-Europe 21, do exército dos EUA.

 

Estas e outras manobras militares, que fazem da Europa um importante centro de armamento, criam uma tensão crescente com a Rússia, centrada na Ucrânia. A NATO, depois de ter desagregado a Federação Jugoslava, ao inserir a cunha da guerra nas suas fracturas internas, surge agora como a paladina da integridade territorial da Ucrânia. O Presidente da Comissão Militar da NATO, o Chefe da Força Aérea Real Britânica, Stuart Perch, reunido em Kiev com o Presidente Zelensky e o Chefe do Estado-Maior, Khomchak, declarou que "os aliados da NATO estão unidos na condenação da anexação ilegal da Crimeia pela Rússia e das suas acções agressivas na Ucrânia Oriental".  Repetiu assim a versão de que foi a Rússia que anexou à força a Crimeia, ignorando o facto de que foram os russos da Crimeia que decidiram, num referendo, separar-se da Ucrânia e voltar a juntar-se à Rússia para evitar serem atacados, como os russos no Donbass, por batalhões neonazis em Kiev. Os mesmos utilizados em 2014 como força de ataque no putsch da Praça Maidan, desencadeado por franco-atiradores georgianos que dispararam sobre manifestantes e polícias, e em acções posteriores: aldeias submetidas a ferro e fogo, activistas queimados vivos na Câmara do Trabalho de Odessa, civis desarmadosque foram massacrados em Mariupol, bombardeados com fósforo branco em Donetsk e Lugansk. Um golpe de Estado sangrento sob comando USA/NATO, com o objectivo estratégico de provocar uma nova guerra fria na Europa para isolar a Rússia e reforçar, ao mesmo tempo, a influência e a presença militar dos Estados Unidos na Europa.

 

O conflito no Donbass, cujas populações se auto-organizaram nas Repúblicas de Donetsk e Lugansk com a criação das suas próprias milícias populares, passou por um período de relativo descanso com a abertura das conversações de Minsk para uma solução pacífica. Agora, porém, o governo ucraniano retirou-se das conversações, com o pretexto de que se recusa a ir a Minsk porque a Bielorrússia não é um país democrático. Ao mesmo tempo, as forças de Kiev retomaram os ataques armados ao Donbass. O Chefe do Estado-Maior, Khomchak, que Stuart Perch elogiou em nome da NATO pelo seu "empenho na procura de uma solução pacífica para o conflito", disse que o exército de Kiev "está a preparar-se para a ofensiva na Ucrânia Oriental" e que nessa  operação "está planeada a participação de aliados da NATO".

 

Não surpreende que o conflito no Donbass se tenha reacendido quando,  sob a administração Biden, Antony Blinken assumiu o cargo de Secretário de Estado. De ascendência ucraniana, foi o principal orientador do Putch da Praça Maidan, na qualidade de Vice-Conselheiro da Segurança Nacional na Administração Obama-Biden. Como Subsecretária de Estado, Biden nomeou Victoria Nuland, em 2014, directora assistente da operação americana, com um custo superior a 5 biliões de dólares, para estabelecer na Ucrânia, a "boa governação" (como ela própria declarou). Não está excluído que nesta altura tenham um plano: promover uma ofensiva das forças de Kiev no Donbass, apoiadas de facto, pela NATO. Isto colocaria Moscovo perante uma escolha que, de qualquer modo, seria vantajosa para Washington: deixar que as populações russas do Donbass fossem massacradas, ou intervir militarmente em seu apoio. Brinca-se com o fogo, não em sentido  figurado, acendendo a mecha de uma bomba no coração da Europa.

Manlio Dinucci

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Eric Zuesse -- The West now acknowledges that it is fascist

 

The West now acknowledges that it is fascist

 

Eric Zuesse, April 14, 2021

 

On April 11th, Germany again (though this time only implicitly) acknowledged that the reason why the war in Ukraine has been continuing after the 2015 Minsk II agreements, which were supposed to create the preconditions for peace, is that Ukraine refuses to comply with those commitments.

 

Buried in an item published on April 8th by Germany’s Government is an outright admission that what has been blocking peace in Ukraine since 2014 is not Russia — such as the U.S. Government and its allies (such as Germany’s Government) allege — but their ally Ukraine’s Government, which has only been pretending to want peace there, while blocking even the possibility of peace.

 

When an employee of a state-owned ‘news’-medium (Deutsche Welle) is granted by that employer the use of that medium to declare publicly, to the world, that the official position of that government (Germany), which had alleged that Russia has been to blame for the lack of peace in Ukraine, was a lie in order to deceive their public (Germans), then this is doing more than to acknowledge that that government (Germany) is, itself, a dictatorship (lying to its own people). No one can deny that this government, which has been lying about this reality for the past eight years, is a fascist dictatorship, because it is capitalist instead of communist, and so Germany’s Government is certainly not a communist dictatorship. 

 

Furthermore, since this admission is being made about the central matter in international relations during the past decade — the actual conquest, by the global (U.S.) empire of which that person’s employer (Germany) is a vassal-nation, against a nation (Ukraine) that borders on the main nation which has remained independent from this empire (Russia) — then this publication is an announcement, to the world, that one’s own country (Germany) is a part of a larger global empire (the U.S. empire) that actually controls one’s own country (Germany) and which foreign imperial power (the U.S. Government) is therefore exploiting not only that conquered nation (Ukraine) which borders the independent nation (Russia), but is also exploiting the announcer’s own nation, and so this is an announcement that the entire global order is an enormous fascist international dictatorship (the U.S. empire) — a global fascist empire, of which one’s own nation (Germany) is merely a part.