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| The US is continuing its baseless claims against Russia and is now accusing Moscow of planning to stage a false flag in eastern Ukraine by making a "propaganda video" showing a staged attack. US officials said Russian intelligence is "intimately involved" with the plan and said the video would likely "depict graphic scenes of a staged false explosion with corpses, actors depicting mourners, and images of destroyed locations and military equipment." The US offered no evidence to back up the extraordinary accusation. This marks the second time in recent weeks that the US claimed without evidence that Russia was planning a false flag to justify an invasion. |
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| Let's be honest: Americans don't care about Africa - by and large, at least. Despite the lies we tell ourselves - and the raging debates we have - about PC-culture, critical race theory, and so on, this remains a salient fact. Sure, the delusion is soothing. It tends to bring virtue-signaled solace to many a liberal mainly concerned with showing off the latest in proper buzzwords. It offers the satisfaction of righteous rage to those conservatives mainly concerned with smearing snowflakes. But much of this - despite the genuine importance of the debates at hand - is theater, narcissistic navel-gazing gone amok. In reality, across the political and social spectrum most people maintain wildly Western - specifically Euro - centric world-views, and Africa still exists in their imaginations as (at best) one grand Sally Struthers-hosted "Save-the-Children" commercial. |
| By Maj. Danny Sjursen, USA (ret.)
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| Ukraine continues to send a much different message than what US officials are saying concerning a potential Russian invasion. On Sunday, an aide to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said a diplomatic solution to the current tensions with Russia is more likely than a military conflict. "An honest assessment of the situation suggests that the chance of finding a diplomatic solution for de-escalation is still substantially higher than the threat of further escalation," said presidency advisor Mykhailo Podolyak. On the same day, Jake Sullivan, President Biden's national security advisor, continued to hype up the threat of a potential Russian invasion. "We are in the window. Any day now, Russia could take military action against Ukraine or it could be a couple of weeks from now, or Russia could choose to take the diplomatic path instead," he told Fox News. |
| | Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ), the influential chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, slammed President Biden's plans for reviving the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, known as the JCPOA, in a speech on the Senate floor on Tuesday. Menendez said the administration was "clinging" to the deal for "nostalgias sake" in a rebuke to the US's indirect negotiations with Iran. "At this point, we seriously have to ask what exactly are we trying to salvage?" he said. "As someone who has followed Iran's nuclear ambition for the better part of three decades, I am here today to raise concerns about the current round of negotiations over the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action," Menendez added. |
| The economic war on Afghanistan is taking a deadly toll on the population as the country has been cut off from all but a trickle of humanitarian aid. Roughly 23 million people are facing acute food insecurity as a result, and that number is liable to grow if the international response remains as limited and piecemeal as it has been. Nothing better illustrates the cruelty and destructiveness of economic warfare than the current situation in Afghanistan, which is being subjected to the equivalent of a blockade because of the outcome of a war that the US and its allies lost. The people of Afghanistan are now being starved because the US and US-led international institutions refuse to accept the reality of that defeat. |
| The Korean peninsula is heating up again. North Korea launched seven missiles in January. All were short-to-medium range, but Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un hinted that he might restart ICBM and nuclear tests. And he's not negotiating with America. After the collapse of the 2019 Hanoi summit, Kim essentially cut contact with both the US and South Korea. He has rebuffed President Joe Bidens requests to talk. Kim launched a verbal attack and another missile after the Biden administration imposed new sanctions in response to the earlier tests. |
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