At the same time that French President Emmanuel Macron is threatening to send troops to Ukraine to fight against Russia, his country is fueling the Russian war effort by purchasing €600 million worth of natural gas from Moscow in the first three months of 2024.
Not The Best Time To Mention Nuclear
@Breaking: John Kerry says people would ‘feel better’ about the war in Ukraine if Russia would ‘make a greater effort to reduce emissions’
Lex Fridman With Tucker Carlson
“Are you telling me Boris Johnson is sleazier than Vladmir Putin?”
Putin’s Propaganda Present
Well done Mr. Prime Minister. And of course lets not forget the small army of geniuses in the PMO who signed off on this as well. You’ve made all of us so very proud to be Canadians (again).
National Post- Vladimir Putin brings up Canada’s applause for ex-Nazi in Tucker Carlson interview
Ezra Levant- Trudeau is personally responsible for granting Putin his sharpest propaganda talking point.
Sun- Putin makes Canada’s embarrassing ‘Nazi in parliament’ story worldwide news
Globe and Mail- Canadians won’t be fooled by Putin propaganda on Ukraine, Trudeau says
Globe and Mail- Prime Minister invited Waffen-SS veteran Hunka to his official reception for Zelensky
Putin Vs. Tucker Decoded
“Why did you do this?”
The Tucker Carlson interview of Vladmir Putin.
30 minutes in, this is a fascinating watch.
59 minutes in, Canada gets a shout out!
1:21: Whoo boy, the undermining of the USD as the world’s reserve currency comes up and it’s brutal.
Pretty good interview, unless you still retained a faint hope that our Western leaders were Putin’s intellectual equal, then … whoo boy.
Update: The interview has nearly 45 million views on X in 4 hours.
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I don’t understand. They held talks. There were announcements. They made agreements.
Western sanctions on Russian oil — agreed upon a year ago this week — were designed to reduce funding for the Kremlin’s military assault on Ukraine. Instead, it has fostered a lucrative business for scores of difficult-to-trace traders and shipping companies, known as the shadow fleet, which moved about 45% of Russia’s oil this year. As much as $11 billion a year of petrodollars are evaporating between when the oil leaves Russia and when it reaches buyers, according to trade data compiled by Bloomberg.
It’s almost as though there’s a market for oil that doesn’t care about meetings.
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I cannot believe he didn’t see this. I thought everyone saw this.
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We just met with the President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić, at the Serbian Embassy in Budapest. Here’s what happened. pic.twitter.com/R4fcTMBTlV
— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) August 20, 2023
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A thread by Franz-Stefan Gady;
@konrad_muzyka , @RALee85 , @KofmanMichael, & I spent some time this month visiting the frontlines in Ukraine to gain new insights into the ongoing counteroffensive & the war overall. Here are some general observations… we spoke to NCOs, officers, a number of brigade commanders (national guard & regular army) in the field plus senior intel & defense officials in Kyiv.
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The narrative that Ukrainian progress thus far is slow just because of a lack of weapons deliveries and support is monocausal & is not shared by those we spoke to actually fighting & exercising command on the frontline.
The Day After
Once again, it Looks like the obsolete media got drunk from sniffing the cork off a wine bottle.
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Update: And it’s reportedly over.
And just like that the entire Western media comes out supporting insurrections
— Jack Poso (@JackPosobiec) June 24, 2023
I’ve had my morning taken up by a project deadline, so it’s easier to just shortcut you to these accounts: @JackPosobiec,@KimDotcom, @Johnrobb, War Room on Rumble. More here (Mario Nawfal) on Spaces.
I’ll add to the links above as time permits.
The hero the West’s been waiting for.
I would strongly caution people against celebrating what is happening in Russia. There have been fewer harsher critics of Putin’s invasion but chaos is very rarely a good thing.
Prigozhin is not the only one with a private army in Russia. Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov has a large force under his command who have 0 loyalty to Russia or Putin. They hate Wagner but if Putin has to be rescued by them, why not take him out as well as take over the country?
Will the national guard fight for Putin?
We don’t have answers to any of these questions ..and an armed mutiny in a nuclear nation is a big deal.
Evgeny Prigozhin has announced that having moved his units to within 200km of Moscow he is turning around “to avoid spilling Russian blood”.
He claims his “March for Justice” was triggered by an attempt to disband Wagner.
It’s hard to describe how NOT over this is.
You can’t lead an armed mutiny which has allegedly shot down a number of Russian MoD helicopters and threatened Moscow and then just turn around and go home.
This will run and the pressure will be on Putin for heads to roll.
Remain skeptical: The information war is peaking. Social media is a huge battlefield today.
By the way, if you want to know what I think, this is what I think.
I’m old enough to remember when Trump was a Russian asset, the Truckers Convoy was the work of Russian actors, and Putin was falling down stairs and dying of a mystery disease.
But hey, lets set aside their track record for lying, and skip along behind Biden and Trudeau into a confrontation with a nuclear armed Russia like good little citizens, while we eagerly await the next round of gun confiscation and internet speech laws to take effect. Kiss your old vaccine passes for good luck! Do it for democracy.
That’s what I think.
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Back in December, the European Union barred almost any seaborne crude oil imports from Russia. It extended the prohibition to refined fuels two months later.
However, the rules didn’t prevent countries like India from snapping up cheap Russian crude, turning it into fuels like diesel, and shipping it back to Europe at a markup.
The Asian country is on track to become Europe’s largest supplier of refined fuels this month while simultaneously buying record amounts of Russian crude, according to data compiled by Bloomberg from analytics firm Kpler.
“Russian oil is finding its way back into Europe despite all the sanctioning and India ramping up fuel exports to the west is a good example of it,” said Viktor Katona, lead crude analyst at the firm. “With India taking in so much Russian barrels, it’s inevitable.”
The development is double-edged for the EU. On the one hand, the bloc needs alternative sources of diesel now that it has cut off direct flows from Russia, previously its top supplier. However, it ultimately boosts demand for Moscow’s barrels, and means extra freight costs.
It also means more competition for Europe’s oil refiners who can’t access cheap Russian crude, and comes amid wider market scrutiny about where the region’s diesel imports are coming from.
The Escalation Escalator
DU is less radioactive, mainly emitting alpha particles, which don’t have enough energy to go through skin, so exposure to the outside of the body is not considered a serious hazard.
It can be a serious health hazard, however, if it is swallowed or inhaled.
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The war in Ukraine is led by the same geopolitical experts and seasoned military tacticians who executed the Afghanistan withdrawal, so relax.
According to that information, the Russian military is engaged in negotiations with Chinese drone manufacturer Xi’an Bingo Intelligent Aviation Technology over the mass production of kamikaze drones for Russia. The revelations create a new urgency in the debate over possible Chinese military support for Russia.
Bingo has reportedly agreed to manufacture and test 100 ZT-180 prototype drones before delivering them to the Russian Defense Ministry by April 2023. Military experts believe the ZT-180 is capable of carrying a 35- to 50 kilogram warhead.
Sources believe that the design of the unmanned aerial vehicle could be similar to that of Iran’s Shaheed 136 kamikaze drone. The Russian army has deployed hundreds of them in its attacks on Ukraine, where they used the Iranian drones to target residential buildings, power plants and district heating facilities, often resulting in civilian casualties.
Related: Russia’s food inflation rate, now lower than Canada’s, despite 87 companies halting investments in Russia.
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“We Americans do not understand central and eastern Europe. Period. The end.”
Simmer down, these people know what they’re doing.
World War III News
Victor Davis Hanson writes about the war in Ukraine.
James Sinclair and Chuck Prodonick
The military stories are incredible. Then come the politics. Take the time, no, make the time, to listen. Language warning: it’s not for treatoddlers or woke snowflakes.
Together they have 54 years of Canadian military experience. They both served in Princess Patricia’s Light Infantry, combined they did tours in Croatia, Bosnia, Kosovo & Afghanistan. This episode marks the first attempt at a military roundtable where we hear stories about the military and an outlook on the world today.
Smell that Smell
The Telegraph- Households burn cat litter to heat homes amid wood pellet shortage
Households are using cat litter to heat their homes, according to pet shop bosses, after the Ukraine war sparked a shortage of wood pellets. Jollyes, one of the UK’s largest pet food stores, said its cat litter suppliers were “working overtime to fulfill demand” for wood pellets, after a sharp jump in sales earlier this winter.