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ccdirtdawgs's avatar

(Filing Niger under the "Nuland saw what was coming and jumped" column) 🤣

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ML's avatar

Musings on Odessa: Old Europe - meaning the extraordinarily wealthy 19th century banking families of the Ephrussi (with ties to the Rothschilds by marriage) originated in Odessa in the late 1870’s. The Ephrussi made a vast fortune controlling the grain export business (main customer, Britain) and founded a bank for such dealings, which had offices, through the sons, in Vienna, Paris and London. The fascinating story told in “The Hare With the Amber Eyes” by Ephrussi Edmund de Waal (2010) recounts how the family collection of tiny Japanese carved netsuke found their way down the years from his great grandmother…Odessa is directly linked to the 17th arrondissement in Paris, Parc Monceau in particular, where Proust and his petit monde met and where “La Recherche” was born…So Odessa, founded in 1791 by Catherine the Great (who welcomed French intellos like Voltaire to her court), must hold a place of almost existential importance to the City of London and even, just riffing here, the banking elite in Paris of which Macron is a part.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ephrussi_family

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Mark Wauck's avatar

Quite fascinating!

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dissonant1's avatar

The "Vampire Ball" is winding down.

(https://www.rt.com/russia/594201-putin-interview-kiselyov-recap/).

In the immortal words of Don Meredith (RIP):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtGxusvUT3k

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Antipodes's avatar

Yep, I would bet on Russia too.

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Mark Wauck's avatar

On today’s Ron Paul Liberty Report:

A disturbing report from the Government Accountability Office shows that 70 percent – and maybe more – of the outrageously expensive, over-budget F-35 fighter jets are not capable of conducting combat. Yet Washington continues to rattle sabers at Russia and China. Also today: Pentagon not bothering to track weapons sent to Ukraine, and US considering MORE military aid to Israel as “incentive” for lower civilian casualties.

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ROBERT Incognito's avatar

The U.S. get the military equipment that is designed solely to make the military industrial complex rich 🤑

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AmericanCardigan's avatar

From yesterday's blog with the Reuters link that I believe is the most fascinating part about Phee...

""Also, the government of Niger forcefully denounces the condescending attitude accompanied by the threat of retaliation from the head of the American delegation towards the Nigerien government and people," he added."

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Bob C.'s avatar

I guess we should expect no less from a fellow traveler of Victoria Nuland.

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AmericanCardigan's avatar

same mold right?

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Mark Wauck's avatar

How to make friends and influence people. Not.

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