By Shoshana Bryen and Stephen Bryen • February 24, 2022 • The Epoch Times

A superpower shouldn’t make threats that won’t be backed up. The United States and NATO—who don’t agree on very much—do agree that no one will use military force to defend Ukraine. That means all the threats are economic and political.

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Putin warns the U.S. not to intervene.

By Joseph Klein, FPM     Feb 24/22

It’s official. The oft-repeated warning from the Biden administration that a Russian invasion of Ukraine was imminent has come to pass.

On February 21st, Russian President Vladimir Putin sent so-called “peace-keeping” forces across Russia’s border with Ukraine into two eastern Ukrainian provinces, Donetsk and Luhansk, in the Donbass region. These provinces have been controlled by Russian-leaning Ukrainian separatists who have served as Russia’s proxies since 2014. However, to the rest of the world they are still considered within Ukraine’s internationally recognized borders.
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By Michael Curtis, AM THINKER

On February 14, 2022, Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett arrived in Bahrain, a small island country in the Persian Gulf with a population of 1.5 million, and which has had a very small Jewish population for more than a century. It was the first trip by an Israeli prime minister to this gulf state. Bennett was greeted at the airport by the King and Crown Prince Salman bin Hamad al-Khalifa and a guard of honor playing “Hatikvah,” the Israeli national anthem which celebrates a “free people in our land, the land of Zion and Jerusalem.”

The Bennett visit was the outcome of the signing of the Abraham Accords on September 15, 2020, brokered by President Donald Trump, normalizing relations between Israel and two Arab countries, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain, a historic achievement for mutual recognition and increased cooperation between the three countries on trade and investment, and on defense against aggression by Iran.
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by Burak Bekdil, GATESTONE INSTITUTE  •  February 24, 2022 at

In just over one year in office, U.S. President Joe Biden has swung from a pledge to oust Turkey’s Islamist autocrat, President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an, to occasionally appease him, first behind doors, and now publicly. Pictured: Biden meets with Erdo?an during the G20 Summit on October 31, 2021, in Rome, Italy. (Photo by Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images)

• In early January… in a bolder, less expected and potentially damaging geostrategic move that angered all four of Turkey’s Mediterranean rivals (Greece, Cyprus, Israel and Egypt), the Biden administration silently abandoned an eastern Mediterranean pipeline project (EastMed) that would carry Israeli gas through Cyprus to Europe.
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By Michelle Edwards, UNCOVERDC

A board member of German insurer BKK ProVita recently had analyzed the data of millions of insured individuals of the BKK group. The results conclude that the number of COVID-19 “vaccine” side effects is much higher than is being reported by the German federal agency and medical regulatory body, the Paul Ehrlich Institute (PEI). According to BKK board member Andreas Schöfbeck, the new data is an “alarm signal.” He highlighted on Wednesday that “the figures determined are significant and urgently need to be checked for plausibility.” Noting the importance of the potential findings, he added:

“The numbers that resulted from our analysis are very far away from the publicly announced numbers. It would be ethically wrong not to talk about it.”

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T. Belman. Rosenthal is quite right to suggests that the American decline started after 9/11.

By Victor Rosenthal

The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.

If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles.

Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.

Sun Tzu, The Art of War
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T. Belman.  Strangely, Melanie didn’t included in the black marks against Biden that he withdrew support from the Israel-Greece pipeline which would have also delivered gas to Europe. Part of the strategy of the climate hustlers is to make energy very costly so that alternative energy sources such as wind  and solar become competitive.  Also, higher gas prices are making Russia very rich  and therefor more powerful.

Finally, Putin is more popular in Russia than Biden is in America.  It lies ill in the mouth for the Democrats to demonize Putin considering all their corruption, hoaxes, illegality, deep state operatives and stolen elections.

Through its obsession with “climate change,” the west handed Putin his greatest weapon

By Melanie Phillips

Western nations are shocked — shocked! — by Russian president Vladimir Putin’s onslaught against Ukraine.

There are many reasons why the west must bear considerable responsibility for this crisis. As I wrote here, these include the fantasy indulged in until this week by western nations that Putin posed no threat and was instead a person through whom westerners could enrich themselves.

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By Jack Phillips, EPOCH TIMES        Feb 23/20

The leaders of two separatist regions in eastern Ukraine have asked Russian President Vladimir Putin for military assistance, said a Kremlin spokesperson on Wednesday, as Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said U.S. intelligence has determined that more military forces have entered the two regions.

Russian President Vladimir Putin “received letters of appeal from the head of the Luhansk People’s Republic Leonid Pasechnik and the head of the Donetsk People’s Republic Denis Pushilin,” said Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov in remarks to state-run media, referring to the names of the breakaway regions.
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By Steve McCann,  AM THINKIER

Because of the egocentrism and megalomania of the current ruling class, our country is inexorably and stealthily marching toward a tyrannical one-party socialist oligarchy beholden to a globalist agenda.  These elites, in their determination to achieve political and societal status in perpetuity, are willingly allied with the relatively small number of true believers in their midst whose sole focus is to transform America into another failed socialist nation.

In a major step toward accomplishing that goal, the ruling class in both Canada and the United States have calculatingly acquiesced to these ideologues maliciously exploiting the Covid-19 pandemic in order to permanently consolidate their political and societal status.
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By Dennis Prager, JWR

Canada is leaving the Western world.In terms of all-encompassing government, suppression of dissent and the denial of fundamental human rights to many of its citizens, Canada is now more similar to Cuba than to any free country. Canada may eventually return to Western civilization, but as of this writing, the majority of Canadians appear to have no interest in it doing so.

According to Maru Public Opinion, “two-thirds (66%) of Canadians support Prime Minister Justin Trudeau bringing in the Emergencies Act … A majority (56%) of Canadians do not support the truckers who are protesting in any way, shape, or form … This is a majority view held in every province/region across the country.”

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Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman says, “Our public has turned against the Palestinians in general. It’s in our interest to maintain good relations with Israel.”

BY BARENAKED ISLAM

Israel Today For decades, the Arab world maintained a fiery hostility toward Israel, and a widespread belief that “Palestine” must be liberated at all costs. It was easy to do in the pre-Internet era when the people at large, the so-called “Arab street,” could be kept in ignorance regarding the facts of the situation.

Now, as average Arabs become increasingly informed about Israel and its conflict with the Palestinians, sentiments have shifted somewhat, at least among those not driven entirely by the notion of holy war.

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— NOW They Dare Tweet on Election Integrity

By Jim Hoft, GATEWAY PUNDIT

Election fraud caught on tape: Late night counting behind closed doors in Georgia, Illegal late-night ballot deliveries in Detroit, blocking observers from counting room in Michigan

The FBI knew there was MASSIVE voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election.

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Israel has made it clear that if it is forced to pick sides between the United States and Russia, it will have to pick the Americans.

By Ben Caspit, AL MONITOR

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky (R) and his Israeli counterpart Isaac Herzog (C) review an honor guard ahead of their meeting at Mariinskyi Palace in Kiev on Oct. 5, 2021. – SERGEI SUPINSKY/AFP via Getty Images

“We will not say so explicitly, and we will not do anything that we don’t have to … but it is clear to us and the Russians that if we have to choose, our choice will be clear: Israel is on the side of the United States of America,” a senior Israeli source who asked not to identified told Al-Monitor.

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T. Belman. He says that Russian is changing its policy on Israel strike’s in Syria as of today.

Putin calls for recognition of Crimea as Russia

Russian President Vladimir Putin has called for international recognition of Crimea as part of Russia, an end to Ukraine’s NATO membership bid and a halt to weapons shipments there.

Putin claimed Tuesday that Russia’s 2014 annexation of Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula should be internationally recognized as a legitimate reflection of the local population’s choice, likening it to a vote for Kosovo independence.

To end the current crisis, he also called for the renunciation of Ukraine’s NATO bid, saying it should assume a “neutral status,” and said that the West should stop sending weapons there.

By Zvi Bar’el, HAARETZ         Feb. 21, 2022

Last Thursday, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov had a “revelation.” Russia suddenly remembered that it is a partner to the diplomatic process in Syria, and in an impressive display of political consideration, Bogdanov declared that Russia sees the participation of the Syrian Kurds in the diplomatic process as an essential element in preventing separatism and building a unified Syria.

The , who maintain a de facto autonomy in northern Syria, have been courting Russia for a long time, primarily due to fears that U.S. forces will withdraw from Syria. Senior Russian officials have of the Kurdish Autonomous Administration, but so far they have refrained from pressing for them to be included in the diplomatic process.

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“By using unmanned systems, we can just simply see more. They’re high-reliability and remove the human factor,” says Vice Adm. Brad Cooper, who leads the Bahrain-based Fifth Fleet.

By  AP and ILH Staff

US Navy Vice Adm. Brad Cooper, who oversees the Mideast-based 5th Fleet, attends the Unmanned System Exhibition and Conference in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Feb. 21, 2022 | Photo: AP

The US Navy’s Mideast-based Fifth Fleet announced Monday the launch of a new joint fleet of unmanned drones with allied nations to patrol vast swaths of the region’s volatile waters as tensions simmer with Iran.

Vice Adm. Brad Cooper, who leads the Fifth Fleet, said that 100 unmanned drones, both sailing and submersible, would dramatically multiply the surveillance capacities of the US Navy, allowing it to keep a close eye on waters critical to the flow of the global oil and shipping. Trade at sea has been targeted in recent years as Tehran’s nuclear deal with world powers collapsed.

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T. Belman. Kotkin explains why liberalization is viewed as anathema to Communist China but it is also needed for economic prosperity.

At the same time, the liberalization of the US is destroying America because it is destroying its unity.  So the impulse to break things up must be opposed by the impulse to keep things the same.  i.e liberalization vs conservatism. must be kept in balance.

TOO MUCH OF A GOOD THING IS A BAD THING.

EMPIRES COME AND GO. 

PEOPLE TREND TO COLLECTIVIZATION (AMALGAMATION) AND THEN REVERSE COURSE SEEKING SMALL STATES (INDIVIDUALITY)

5 Questions for Stephen Kotkin