Ukraine

Asia rallies behind Russia

While the U.S. and all of Europe react in horror to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the first, second, fourth, tenth and twelfth most-populated nations in Asia feel very different. It really doesn't matter whether you agree with these nations or not. The sheer size and proximity of these nations require respect.
The least surprising is China.

Russia, Ukraine, the UN and NATO

(Some recent developments; I dunno what all’s been covered here..)

Earlier via tass news, and this fukkery may have been just bridge too far):

MOSCOW, February 23. /TASS/. UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres made several statements on the situation in eastern Ukraine that are not compatible with his status, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said, opening talks with UN Special Envoy for Syria Geir Pedersen on Wednesday.

"To our great regret, the UN Secretary General whom you are representing turned out to be susceptible to pressure by the West and recently made several statements incompatible with his status and his authority under the UN Charter," he said.

The Weekly Watch

Media Manipulation

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The failure of legacy media to inform and educate is clear to see. The goal of the media is to push desired narratives. Several events this week caused me to think in this direction... Ukraine, the Durham Report, and the freedom convoy among them.
Have we finally arrived at 1984's Newspeak?
Some Newspeak words include:
Thoughtcrime - Anti-Party thoughts
Facecrime - Occurs when the face reveals the existence of thoughtcrime (either lacking in anti-Party vigor, or expressing distaste for Party actions).
Goodthinkful - Describes a person who thinks just as the Party wishes.
Unperson - Someone the Party has vaporized; someone that no longer exists.(think Joe Rogan)

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UKRAINE: 3 good articles at Antiwar.com

Rick Rozoff's short article lists a Russian proposal for removal of nuclear weapons from non-nuclear Europe.

Dan Sjursen points out why US/NATO cannot win a non-nuclear war over Ukraine.

And David Stockman explains why our addiction to regime change makes our criticism of Crimea's vote to join the Russian Federation so hypocritical. Not to mention our annexation of certain territories.

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