by Burak Bekdil, GATESTONE INSTITUTE  •  February 28, 2022 at 5:00 am

• Biden surprised EastMed partners by abruptly withdrawing U.S. support for the pipeline on January 9, thereby effectively killing the project, preventing a diversified supply of energy to Europe, and further assuring even greater revenues for Russia and its war machine.
• “The Biden Administration’s actions in this matter are particularly objectionable and hypocritical in light of its tacit approval of Russia’s Nord Stream pipeline, which will only deepen Europe’s energy dependence on a volatile adversary.” — U.S. Representative Gus Bilirakis, January 24, 2022.

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To retain our deterrence abroad, we must tighten our belts at home, pump oil and gas, start to balance our budget, junk wokeism as a nihilist indulgence, and recalibrate our military.

By Victor Davis Hanson, AM GREATNESS February 27, 2022

One of the oddest commentaries about the Russian invasion of Ukraine is the boilerplate reaction that “borders can’t change in modern Europe” or “this does not happen in the 21st century.”

But why in the world should the 21st century be exempt from the pathologies of the past 20 centuries? Are we smarter than the Romans? More innovative than Florentines? Do we have more savvy leaders than Lincoln or Churchill? Are they more mellifluous than Demosthenes? Does anyone now remember that some 130,000 were slaughtered just 30 years ago in the former Yugoslavia, as NATO planes bombed Belgrade and nuclear America and Russia almost squared off?
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by Dr. Eric R. Mandel, MEPIN

Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service (EEAS) Enrique Mora and Iran’s chief nuclear negotiator Ali Bagheri Kani and delegations wait for the start of a meeting of the JCPOA Joint Commission in Vienna, Austria December 17, 2021. (credit: EU DELEGATION IN VIENNA/HANDOUT VIA REUTERS)

For many years, Vladimir Putin has complained about the injustice of the collapse of the Soviet Union and the loss of Russia’s rightful hegemony of the former Soviet Republics. In 2005, he said “the demise of the Soviet Union was the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century… Tens of millions of our citizens and fellow countrymen found themselves outside the Russian Federation.”

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By tying itself to a reckless and dangerous America, the Ukrainians made a blunder that client states will study for years to come

BY LEE SMITH, TABLET

Russian President Vladimir Putin chose this war, Joe Biden said in his Thursday afternoon speech to America regarding the conflict in Ukraine. That is true, but U.S. elites also had something to do with Putin’s ugly and destructive choice—a role that Democrats and Republicans are eager to paper over with noble-sounding rhetoric about the bravery of Ukraine’s badly outgunned military.

Yes, the Ukrainian soldiers standing up to Putin are very brave, but it was Americans that put them in harm’s way by using their country as a weapon, first against Russia and then against each other, with little consideration for the Ukrainian people who are now paying the price for America’s folly.

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The agreement to hold talks came the same day President Vladimir Putin put Russia’s nuclear deterrent forces on high alert.

By NBC News    Updated Feb. 27, 2022, 5:24 PM IST

Ukraine on Sunday agreed to talks with Russian officials in neighboring Belarus, after initially rejecting the idea, while Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered his country’s nuclear deterrent forces to be on high alert.

In a statement, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he spoke with Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko and agreed to meet with the Russians “without preconditions.” Zelenskyy earlier said his government would not attend negotiations in Belarus, a close ally of Moscow’s where thousands of Russian troops massed in the lead-up to last week’s invasion.

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By Victor Rosenthal

For the last few days it’s been impossible for me to think about anything other than the war in Ukraine:

• Full-scale warfare in Europe. Europe! I know I’m showing my “white” bias, because after all, millions have died in vicious conflicts in places like Nigeria or Somalia; but still, this isn’t supposed to happen in the civilized world (no, Nigeria and Somalia aren’t civilized).
• The heroism of Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, who has remained in the capital of his besieged country, knowing that Russian special forces operators are looking for him, and who told US officials who had offered to evacuate him from the country, “the fight is here; I need ammunition, not a ride.”
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By Alex Grobman PhD, JEWISH PRESS February 27, 2022

Babi Yar, Ukraine, The site of a mass murder of Jews, September 1941 – Photo Credit: Courtesy Yad Vashem – 

*Editor’s Note: This is part XIX in a series. You can read Part XVIII , here

Throughout the first six months of 1942, reports of the systematic slaughter of Jews on the Russian front continued to reach America and were widely reported in the Yiddish and Anglo-Jewish press. Although the degree of space allotted for these reports varied, American Jewry had overwhelming information about the incredible brutalities and the wanton destruction of lives and property. There were many eyewitness accounts of these mass executions from Russian, Jewish, Polish, and Hungarian sources as well as from neutral diplomats reported in Congress Weekly, Forward, Der Tog, Jewish Frontier, Contemporary Jewish Record, and in The New York Times. On January 1942, JTA, Forward, and Der Tog reported an admission by the Germans that they were killing Jewish war prisoners for allegedly shooting German soldiers.

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by Raymond Ibrahim, GATESTONE INSTITUTE  •  February 27, 2022

All around Western Europe, churches are under attack. This is especially true of the countries home to Europe’s largest Muslim populations. In February 2019, “unknown vandals” desecrated and smashed crosses and statues at Saint-Alain Cathedral in Lavaur, France, and mangled the arms of a statue of a crucified Christ in a mocking manner. In addition, an altar cloth was burned. (Image source: Eutrope/Wikimedia Commons)>

• • “As a deeply religious society, these attacks on churches are shocking to the Greek people and calls to question whether these illegal immigrants seeking a new life in Europe are willing to integrate and conform to the norms and values of their new countries.” — Greek City Times, May 16, 2020.

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T. Belman. I tried to post my article The pot is calling the kettle black on my TOI Blog and they said “We’re passing on publishing this because it’s riddled with unfounded claims and offensive comparisons.”

I also submitted it to Am Thinker who have published over 50 of my articles and it was rejected because of its “anti American tone”.

Finally one leftist tore into me for posting Ukraine Invasion, Bioweapons Labs, Russian Perspective. He questioned the fact that the article was harsh on Zelensky. So I looked into to some of the allegations it contained and found this article.

I also hear from a very reliable source that Russia is in good shape and quickly taking over the country and is also negotiating an agreement with the Ukrainian military that will result in regime change in Ukraine and the departure of Russian troops just as they departed in Kazakhstan.

More than 14,000 people been killed in fighting between Ukraine’s army and the Moscow-backed separatists since 2014.

AL JAZEERA  FEB 22/22

A woman walks past cadets of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic in the rebel-controlled city of Donetsk [File: Alexander Ermochenko/Reuters]

The two self-proclaimed rebel republics of Donetsk and Luhansk, whose independence Moscow recognised on Monday, are situated in the rust belt in eastern Ukraine, and escaped Kyiv’s control in 2014.
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This is very important information.

The Bio-weapons labs are financed by the US and there are many of them. Russia is destroying them.
All refugees are going to Russia, not Europe.

By Ted Belman

From twitter I read,

This man is a true leader … protect this man at all cost. #Zelensky #Ukraine #UkraineRussiaWar #UkraineUnderAttack Thank God for him. Also protect his family . ?? pic.twitter.com/DhjqqBFMSM

— Kimberly (@beachygirl70) February 26, 2022

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AXIOS Scoop:

Chris Licht with Stephen Colbert in 2018. Photo: Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images

Under new chief Chris Licht, CNN will dial down the prime-time partisanship and double down on the network’s news-gathering muscle, top sources tell me.

• • Why it matters: Ratings are secondary to credibility, in the view of Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav, who’s taking over CNN.

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Putin sees the region as a zero-sum game against the United States and can respond with sanctions of his own, having created a Mideast presence while America slept

By Zvi Bar’el, HAARETZ       Feb 25/22

In 2005, five years after he was elected Russian president, Vladimir Putin said in a speech that “the demise of the Soviet Union was the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century. … Tens of millions of our citizens and fellow countrymen found themselves outside the Russian Federation.”

As he put it, “our place in the modern world, I want to stress this particularly, will be determined only by the degree of our strength and success.”

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By Markku Siira

It is ironic, but also somehow fitting, that the analyst and author Francis Fukuyama, who in the 1990s raved about the “end of history” and the triumph of American-led, Western liberal democracy, now writes – in the financial circles’ The Economist magazine, no less! – about the end of US hegemony.

Fukuyama even admits that the long-term sources of the American weakness and recession are “domestic rather than international”. The scholar tries to convince his readers that America “will remain a great power for years to come, but its influence will depend more on its ability to fix its domestic problems than on its foreign policy”.

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by Conrad Franz  Feb 24, 2022

On February 24^th of 2022 the decline of the globalist world order and the hegemonic foreign dominion of the United States became clear for all to see. The decisive action being taken by the Russian Federation fulfills the strong statement made in April by Russian President Vladimir about impending “asymmetric and swift responses” to open door NATO policy for Ukraine as well as aggressive assaults on the Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics.
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PRODUCED 13 HOURS AGO. TURLEY KNOWS WHAT HE IS TALKING ABOUT.

BOTH CHINA AND INDIA ARE BACKING PUTIN

I CAN’T RECOMMEND THIS ENOUGH

Here are two tweets regarding the JO that were posted.

Mudar Zahran

Feb 25: “Ukraine’s President Zelenskyy is attempting to flee Kiev under the protection of a small unit of special forces (who belong to a European country close to Ukraine), but to no avail; the Russians have closed all exits from the Ukrainian capital, including the tunnels…”

Feb 24: “Today is a turning point in modern history. The stage of profound melodramatic changes has begun, and Jordan is the key to change in our region and a priority to decision-makers…Peace and prosperity are coming to our region first…”

Abedalelah Amaala

Feb 25: “The largest Jordanian military delegation in years visits Washington. Under the chairmanship of the Chief of Staff, the Director of Military Security, the Director of Intelligence, the Commander of the Air Force, and leaders of military teams, they hold sensitive meetings with the leaders of the US military in the US Department of Defense focusing on the coming days and the new Jordan”

Feb 24: “Also, this time and the world is tight-lipped and busy in the Russian-Ukrainian war. It will be the time of the demise of the Hashemite rule from Jordan, because the Jordanian international and local logistical climate is ready.”