Quick Russia War Update

I spent most of the morning on the Sussmann trial, so I’ll offer a down and dirty update on Russia, NATO, and so forth.

CTH has a Rumble video featuring Doug Macgregor. The important part of the video is that Macgregor points out that the Swedish PM revealed the real reason for joining NATO—Sweden plans to cut defense spending from 4% of GDP to the NATO minimum 2%. There are various ways to look at this. One would be NATO welfare—getting a mostly free defense ride courtesy of the US. Well, that’s what US inflation is largely about—it’s part of the protection racket, literally, that we’ve been running. The other way to look at it would be Sweden surrendering sovereignty and accepting vassal status. The US Deep State likes this, but the US subject population is the real loser, as we have been for many decades now—the result of this racket is serious undermining and distortion of our economy. We all lose from that. The Deep State wins, for the time being, but ultimately the whole country loses. Deep Staters are in it for the short term, or so it seems.

So far, however, all has not been smooth for Sweden and Finland. Turkey is holding their feet to the fire—demanding the Sweden turn over certain Kurds who are wanted by Turkey. Sweden doesn’t really dare talk back to Turkey, which possesses a for real military and, therefore, carries some weight in NATO. OTOH, Sweden thinks they’ve found a country they can push around, at least verbally—NATO, more united than ever!

Ragıp Soylu @ragipsoylu

Erdogan says PKK terrorists are freely and openly parading in countries like Sweden and Finland. “We asked them to extradite these terrorists to Turkey, and they refused,” he says

Baron of the Taiga @baronichitas

Sweden has begun threatening Croatia. Knives out!

Charlie Weimers MEP 🇸🇪 @weimers

#Sweden and #Finland pay in billions to the EU-budget and #Croatia receives billions from it. Same for NextGenerationEU and all other redistribution funds. I just want to remind you Mr President Milanović @Ured_PRH that vetoes go both ways.

Is it really smart to openly say we want to “destroy” a huge nuclear power that has hypersonic missiles for which we have no defense? I’m not gonna tell ya that our rulers are smart—there’s way too much evidence to the contrary:

Spriteer @spriteer_774400

🤡🇺🇸 “To destroy Russia, you have to endure rising prices and falling living standards,” said US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen. Official Washington, no longer hiding, voices the ultimate goal - the destruction of Russia.

Can we have a vote on this? How many people really want rising prices and falling living standards? Our “elected representatives” voted for that, it seems. How many normals across the fruited plain actually want to “destroy Russia”?

Alfred E. Neumann turns 75:

Vera Van Horne @VeraVanHorne

Bush to ‘Zelensky’: Your task is to kill as many Russian military, as possible.

Dances_with_Bears @bears_with

President George Bush tells Vovan & Lexus pretending to be Zelensky, he authorised secret Ukrainian biolabs, explains away NATO promise to Gorbachev, declares Ukrainian heroes, “Slava Vovan & Lexus!” Start at Min 37:42; https://t.co/spuTD6ANcF https://t.co/Z9v9cVZjsy

🅰pocalypsis 🅰pocalypseos 🇷🇺 🇨🇳 🅉 @apocalypseos

Put on subtitles and auto-translate. Prank and discussion begin at 37:42. Enjoy! 🍿 youtube.com/watch?v=3lasvY…

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There’s a food front in this war—looks like Russia is winning on that front, too. Whose idea was this? I don’t remember voting for it.

Socialist Economic B @SocEconB

Russia, not Ukraine is the largest wheat exporter in the world, over 2 1/2 times greater. The global food crisis is driven by sanctions, not the war.

Who knew we could be so flexible on sanctions?

-- GEROMAN -- 👀 - @GeromanAT

"West is winning"

Spriteer @spriteer_774400

The "The wall street journal" writes that the United States is considering the possibility of temporarily lifting sanctions on Belarusian potassium fertilizers in exchange for the transit of Ukrainian cereals through Belarus.

So, let’s see—we “temporarily” lift sanctions when we start hurting, but then it’ll be back to trying to “destroy” Russia. And of course Russia will do nothing to defend itself. Who are the dumb ones in this scenario?