By Ted Belman
So far, in my writings and postings, I have given Russia a pass. No longer.
I am working on an article which spotlights Russia’s activities in Libya, Syria, Iran and Ukraine.
Its not going to be pretty.
I will also spotlight her relations with Israel which leave much to be desired.
If anyone wants to suggest articles I should read, please email me or put the links in the Comments.
Mar 3/22
Feb 25/22
THIS IS AN EXTREMELY IMPORTANT INTERVIEW.
By Victor Sharpe March 4, 2022
There is no such thing as a Palestinian people; no such thing as a Palestinian history; and no Palestinian language exists. There has never been an independent, sovereign Palestinian Arab state in recorded history.
You will search in vain for Palestinian Arab coinage or Palestinian Arab archaeological artifacts specifically related to any Palestinian Arab king or ancient leader because they do not exist. But what you will find are coins, pottery, ancient scrolls and artifacts, all providing conclusive and millennial evidence of Biblical and post-Biblical Jewish civilization dotting the land known correctly as Israel – not Palestine.
By Peg Tierney Tierney’s REAL News (3/5/22)
BANNON: We know that Putin and the Oligarchs in both Russia & Ukraine have been stripping Ukraine of resources for years. So have Biden and the crooks in DC along with the Clintons – who run one of the most corrupt foundations in the world – the Clinton Global Initiative – which, by the way, just re-opened for business!
[Remember that Ukraine is one of the most corrupt countries in the world & also one of the most naturally rich and is used as a money laundering pit for the world’s elite on all sides]
As a retired oilfield training engineer, I have traveled to 38 different countries. I have worked in Russia and China. I have never been in Ukraine but I have been in Romania, which is just across the border. Not once in my travels to these countries has any of their citizens come to me and said, “We love Americans and want them to like us. To promote greater friendship with America, we make American visitors feel welcome. To do so, we give them large sums of money. We would like to give you three million dollars. Yours is in this package. We hope you enjoy it and remember your friends here.”
Read more…
by Burak Bekdil, GATESTONE • March 5, 2022 at 5:00 am
Pictured: The Turkish Navy minesweeper Akcay enters the Russian port of Novorossiysk, for military exercises in the Black Sea, on March 6, 2019. (Photo by STR/AFP via Getty Images)
Turkey’s top defense procurement official, Ismail Demir, says that Turkey will keep working to have a stronger and more deterrent naval force in the “blue homeland,” a term Turks use for the Aegean and Mediterranean Seas. Demir’s office is running hundreds of armament programs.
Read more…
By Daniel Greenfield, FPM MAR 4/22
If the United States were being invaded and on the brink of conquest, I’d want a leader willing to do absolutely everything. So I’m not going to fault Zelensky for doing what’s best for his country. (Likewise, Putin believes that conquering Ukraine and any other country that used to be part of the Soviet sphere of influence is what’s best for his country. Nationalism is only as good as the country or its leader.)
That said, the willingness of too many people to climb on board with whatever propaganda Zelenskyy or Putin are spouting this week is too much.
Iran agrees to a roadmap to resolve all of its issues with the UN nuclear watchdog by late June after the agency’s chief says a nuclear deal would not possible without it
Reuters Mar. 5, 2022 12:11 PM
IAEA’s Rafael Mariano Grossi (right) speaks with Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian in Tehran, on Saturday. Credit: /AP
Russia’s demand for written U.S. guarantees that sanctions on Moscow would not damage Russian cooperation with Iran is “not constructive” for talks between Tehran and global powers to revive a 2015 nuclear deal, a senior Iranian official told Reuters on Saturday.
The announcement by Russia, which could torpedo months of intensive indirect talks between Tehran and Washington in Vienna, came shortly after Tehran said it had agreed a roadmap with the UN nuclear watchdog to resolve outstanding issues which could help secure the nuclear pact.
T. Belman. This is exactly what Dr. Turley is saying.
By Ray DiLorenzo, STAND UP AMERICA
A Ukrainian member of Parliament, Kira Rudik, said a no no. In February, she said out loud what their government has been hiding. She told Fox News they were fighting for the New World Order. She admitted they were in a war to maintain the neo-liberal global order. She maintains that the fight is critical, that it threatens disruption of the establishment of the Great Reset.
The Ukraine/Russia war is not a simple good vs. evil conflict.
Pelosi’s committee is so desperate to shut down the truth about the Democrats & RiNOs stealing the election for Biden that they filed in court to try to charge President Trump with overthrowing the election! They even sent out Pence & Barr to smear Trump. Her committee does not have the power to indict. Here’s the filing and PR release:
By Caroline B. Glick, ISRAEL HAYOM
A protestor calls for on NATO to enforce a no-fly zone over the Ukraine during a demonstration in Paris on Feb. 26, 2022 | File photo: AP/Peter Dejong
On Wednesday evening, Israeli journalist Ron Ben-Yishai reported from Kyiv that the memorial site at Babi Yar is unharmed. For a full news cycle Tuesday, Ukraine’s leadership from President Volodymyr Zelensky down a report of an alleged Russian bombing of the site where Ukrainian and Nazi forces massacred 33,000 Jews in two days in September 1941 as a means to demonize Russia. They also used the alleged Russian bombing to whitewash Ukraine’s record of massive collaboration with the Nazis in the genocide of Ukrainian Jewry during the Holocaust.
T. Belman. Goldman argues that the WWI tragedy was due to the fact that nobody backed down. He says the same regarding the Ukraine tragedy. Putin made reasonable demands but the US refused to cut a deal
World War I had no good guys, no winners, just mediocre, small-minded politicians unable to step back from the brink
By David P. Goldman, ASIA TIMES MAR 4/22
World War I had no good guys and no winners. France rightly sought the return of the provinces Germany had annexed in 1870. Russia rightly feared that German influence would sever its industrial centers and tax base in the Western parts of it its empire; England feared that Germany would encroach on its overseas empire; Germany feared that Russia’s railroad system would overcome its advantage in mobility and firepower. None of them wanted a war, but each of them decided that it was better to fight in 1914 than fight later at a disadvantage.
Iranian officials have also signaled that a deal is all but finished.
A senior Russian official announced on Thursday that a new nuclear deal with Iran will be announced within 24 to 48 hours, signaling the Biden administration’s continued reliance on and cooperation with Moscow even as it wages a full-scale war in Ukraine.
Mikhail Ulyanov, Russia’s ambassador for Iran negotiations, made the announcement in a video now circulating on social media. Ulyanov also said that he does not see the deal falling apart as a result of Russia’s war, and that the two issues remain separate.
There are so many complex reasons for Russian President Vladimir Putin to invade Ukraine. And so many outcomes yet to be determined — sadly, all of them bad for the USA.
[..]
But there’s also a shocking bonus to all of this that no one else is talking about.
T. Belman. Flynn doesn’t mention Donetsk. Of course Ukraine will have to cede that too. Putin’s demand were modest in the beginning i.e., he wanted Ukraine to not join NATO and to be neutral. The US refused to give him anything and so Putin invaded. I believe that he will demand more than Flynn has offered him. He might want a land bridge to Crimea or he might want all of Ukraine east of the Dnieper River. He will probably ask for the end of all sanctions and will offer to compensate Ukraine as Flynn suggests.
By General M. Flynn, WESTERN JOURNALISM
There is an option that would give Putin an out. This option needs to be thoroughly analyzed and discussed. It gets Putin what he wants, affords Ukraine a unique and long-term security opportunity, allows Europe and the world to take a deep breath, and can stop this madness along with the horrible killing taking place on both sides (and this may only be the beginning).
I believe the key to unlocking this crisis is the Budapest Agreement.
