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.
Dmitrii Medvedev: “On the one hand, insane sanctions are being imposed on us, and on the other hand, they are demanding food supplies. It will not happen. We are not idiots.”
Is there an Anglo link to the full text of Yellen's remarks?
Dmitrii Medvedev: “On the one hand, insane sanctions are being imposed on us, and on the other hand, they are demanding food supplies. It will not happen. We are not idiots.”
Did you see the one where Wee Willie Milley called Gerasimov yesterday?
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2022/05/ukraine-sitrep-russians-break-through-us-bolsterism.html