Pepe Escobar is a Brazilian journalist and geopolitical analyst.
"There’s no real government in Kiev; the U.S. ambassador is in charge." said Sergei Glaziev in December 2014. Below from left to right: Glaziev, Lavrov and Putin.
“Glaziev, predictably detested across Atlanticist circles, was a key economic adviser to President Putin and is now the Minister for Integration and Macroeconomics of the Eurasia Economic Union (EAEU). He has always been a fierce critic of the Russian Central Bank and the oligarch gang closely linked to Anglo-American finance.”
Today, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, channelling the patience of 10,000 Taoist monks, describes the sanctions as “some kind of a tax on independence”, with countries barring their companies from working in Russia.
Lethal counterpunches though are not excluded. Apart from completely de-dollarising, Russia may ban the export of titanium, rare earth, nuclear fuel and, already in effect, rocket engines. Very toxic moves would include seizing all foreign assets of hostile nations; freeze all loan repayments to Western banks and place the funds in a frozen account.
Read on > >https://thesaker.is/how-russia-will-counterpunch-the-u-s-eu-declaration-of-war/
The unelected, uber-Kafkaesque EU machine in Brussels has chosen to commit a triple hara-kiri by grandstanding as abject vassals of the Empire, destroying any remaining French and German sovereignty impulses and imposing alienation from Russia-China.
Meanwhile, Russia will be showing the way: only self-sufficiency affords total independence. And the Big Picture has also been keenly understood by the Global South: one day someone had to stand up and say, “That’s Enough”. With maximum raw power to back it up.
To a hammer, everything looks like a nail. To an empire, everything looks like a crisis to justify a multi-trillion-dollar military-industrial-security complex as dictatress of the world. The crisis du jour for the American empire is Russia‘s aggression against Ukraine. The political establishment and the mainstream media assign responsibility to President Putin’s megalomaniac ambition to recreate the Soviet empire. Ray McGovern and John Mearsheimer shoulder the United States with a fair share of the blame: the never-ending expansion of NATO cheek by jowl to Russian borders provoked the invasion; Russia fears nuclear weapons on its borders as more menacing than the Cuban Missile Crisis was to the United States. Ray and John offer some thoughts regarding how to bury the hatchet and move forward.
https://youtu.be/ppD_bhWODDc
Statement from the Schiller Institute:
https://youtu.be/9T1YJ94Cvs4