On Friday, President Biden signed into law a bill that suspends normal trade relations with Russia and Belarus. He also signed legislation codifying an executive order he signed last month banning the import of Russian oil, gas, and coal.
The Suspending Normal Trade Relations with Russia and Belarus Act strips the two nations of their “most favored nation trade status,” which paves the way for tariffs and other trade restrictions. The bill blasted through the Senate in a vote of 100-0 and overwhelmingly passed the House with only three Republican Reps. voting against it.
The votes demonstrate the bipartisan support for the US-led Western sanctions campaign against Russia. Also on Friday, the EU imposed new sanctions on Moscow that include a ban on Russian coal and other products. It’s estimated the new measures will slash 10% of the EU’s total imports from Russia.
Under the coal ban, the EU plans to wind down imports over the next four months. The sanctions are significant as the EU relies on Russia for about 45% of its coal imports, and the ban is expected to impact about $8.7 billion of Russian exports.
Responding to the ban, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Russian coal would be sent to other markets. “Shipments of coal, as Europe refuses [its] consumption … will be redirected to alternative markets,” Peskov said, according to Tass. “Of course, coal is still a very popular commodity.”
So far, the sanctions campaign has done nothing to stop the fighting in Ukraine. While Russia’s economy is taking a serious hit, Russian President Vladimir Putin appears to be unphased. In March, his approval rating reached 83%, up from 69% in January.
Russia doesn’t care. Russia is cutting the West off just as much as the West is cutting Russia off. The difference is Russia has the gas, oil, minerals, wheat and food that the EU needs. The US has nothing but higher prices to offer the EU.
Russia will very soon lack all kinds of high-tech components like semi-conductors etc.
When they e.g. want to produce new missiles, they can just stuff them with wheat instead, haha.
You sound a bit arrogant Mr. Bacon…
Didn’t mean to come across like that, trying to be a realist.
There are some idealists on this forum that think Putin is 10 feet tall and can shoot laser beams with his eyes… 😵💫
LOL Little donny drooling over media lies, you are so happy to be on the media’s side so you can always lean on them without having to prove anything you say. Cute.
Uh, the big bad boy is showing up.
I’m off! 🤣🤣
I prefer a fair give and take, on just about any subject. I believe in sharing ideas, even if they are different from mine (gives me something to think about). That becomes difficult to attain if this one and that one gets too caustic…
That’s a pragmatic and sound approach 👍
donny is a sycophant, he loves times like this when all the media push a concerted propaganda campaign, so he can feel big by going along with them. Same as in 2016 when his type claimed “Trump can’t win the election ha ha!” because the fake polls said so, and claimed “Russian bots” were pro-Trump on Twitter even though the only mass-copying bots were from the Clinton campaign. Donny loves agreeing with bots. Later he went along with “Trump is a Russian agent!” for years, never caring about any facts. Same as now over Ukraine, when he pretends to be “for democracy” by supporting a coup oligarchy that has been bombing Donbass daily for seven years. donnyboy loves war crimes when it’s the media-supported side that commits them.
It’s called “being a troll” and he should be ignored.
Ahem. Russia will get the components it needs from India and China.
Haha, good luck, they will need it!!
Aw, look at little donny acting like a kid, how cute. “Haha” is all over your posts, are you a little baby? Who’s a good baby, yes you are!
Are you upset because of all the setbacks, kiddo?
✌️ 🇺🇦 💪
Thiis is called pre-stress trauma syndrome.
You are assiociating yourself wiith the 1% that feels endangered by the wealth and the pace of economic development in countries not under their financial or military control.
They fear loss of their coercive power to intimidate others to do ther bidding. They are stressed and hit with ever so imaginative
stories – like the storiees in CNN of nearly million refugees from Ukraine fleeing to Russia.
Let me give you an advice. Watch Israel carefully. Already jumping ship under many excuses. Trying hard to be yuseful to Russia — although being spurned several times. But keep in trying. Then for the second time this month makin high level overtures to China.
China is not hard to convince. Israel signed Haifa pirt deal, as well as Chinese buikding high speed rail, other urban transit, and more.
Jumping ship?
Bianca, you shouldn’t post comments when you have been drinking, your spelling goes out the window and it’s hard to understand what you are trying to say. Also, you become very emotional too. Alcohol makes that to you.
Actually, no, he’s just another troll.
The war in Ukraine kills thousands of non-combatants and this is the second time you laugh. That is sick.
It would indeed be sick, which some people on this forum have shown they really are.
I laughed at the pathetic idea that Russia doesn’t need to import high-tech material/products.
Russia has an underdeveloped economy that’s basically commodity driven. I still laugh at it, haha.
Not likely. Do not get emotionally involved in something that is not your war. The 1% that really rule — do not deserve our support. And when they start loosing their glob turf, they may actually try to be nice to us. Like paying attentions to our country and its desparate needs.
Every time I take Amtrak train accross Potimac ruver on that pile of rust called the bridge — I wonder iwhat in earth will wake up the brainwashed to stop supporting the interests of the swollen heads now residing in Washingron.
Oh yeah, there will be massive deficits of advanced components for sure.
Russia is a commodity driven economy, not a high-tech one.
Even Taiwan banned export to Russia.
Believe what you want. Cluck heels three times, but it will not return you from the fantasy you live in.
Commidities are becoming hard currency, fiat cunnencues will gradually wither until reduced to their real value. Everyone will need commodities based currencies, and buy then with gold or other stire if values. Even mighty Taiwan will need commodities. Hooefully will make plenty of gold to afford commidities,
Moscow is on the brink of defaulting on its debt for the first time since the Bolshevik coup more than a century ago as sanctions begin to take their toll on the Russian economy.
Credit ratings agency Standard & Poor downgraded Moscow from ‘junk’ to ‘selective default’ on Friday after Russia tried to make foreign bond payments in roubles on Monday when they were due in dollars.
It would mark the first default on its international debts since the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917, with economists warning it could worsen Russia’s economic downturn.
Western sanctions have severely squeezed Russia’s economy, and S&P and other ratings agencies had already downgraded its debt to ‘junk’ status, deeming a default highly likely.
Keep on dreaming, Svetlana.
Having a conversation with you is like conversing with CNN headlines. What do you know about banking?
When Russia’s creditors present a check for payment to the bank that is holding Russia’s money in Russian account — and bank does not pay out, it is bank’s problem. Bank should go bankrupt.
This is why there the ratings are getting curious and curioser.
No, because the contract stipulates the payments should be in US DOLLARS, not RUBLES.
Hence Russia isn’t fulfilling its obligations = default
Got it now??
No, because the contract stipulates the payments should be in US DOLLARS, not RUBLES.
Hence Russia isn’t fulfilling its obligations = default
Got it now??
Presumably the banks not receiving payment in the dollars that are frozen will sue the regimes that froze the dollars.
I wouldn’t bet on it.
A missed payment is a missed payment.
Great that you are acknowledging that the oligarchs in the Kremlin are out of touch with reality…
My fear is that to entice the EU nations to go along with us a deal was cut that the U.S. taxpayers will make up the difference for those higher prices or costs.
I doubt it. They want to suck the EU dry to bolster the US economy. So the EU has to pay those higher prices. However, since the US wants to bolster its military, the taxpayer will still get stuck with that bill.
Yes, you are unfortunatelly right.
A Russian Telegram channel reporting on Pskov, the home of the elite 76th Guards Airborne Division, noted on April 7 that a growing number of paratroopers are refusing to fight. It claimed that many paratroopers have submitted resignation papers, which commanders are refusing to accept. Some soldiers’ families have reportedly appealed to Russian courts to force the Russian military to accept the resignations. The channel claimed on April 6 that 60 paratroopers had refused to fight and were dismissed.
The head of the Russian human rights organization Agora reported on April 8 that members of Russia’s National Guard (Rosgvardia) have refused to go to Ukraine or, having gone and come out, are refusing orders to return to the fight.
The Russian Investigative Committee persists in its work, with 100 researchers unearthing evidence of war crimes across Donbass to be presented at a tribunal in the near future, most probably set up in Donetsk.
Given Joe Biden’s cognitive decline I am surprised that he can write his name. Perhaps it is POS obama who signed the legislative mess.
I am not so sure that Biden’s cognitive decline is in any way hindering him from pursuing his evil designs. The Devil takes care of his own.
There is this: “The bill blasted through the Senate in a vote of 100-0”. So, I guess it really doesn’t matter. Not one critical thinker(no pun) amongst them.
I saw a video from when they invited Obamba recently to the White House to help shore up the falling support. You see how Obama talks to a fawning group and they all ignore Biden who slowly turns around to them. He tries to get in to the circle but Kangala Harris is standing in the way. Then he hesitantly puts a hand on Obama’s shoulder and calls him “Barack” as if they were friends, and Obama just keeps ignoring him.
https://youtu.be/j58Bx0Ebppw?t=194
Obama insulted Biden repeatedly during his time in the White House, calling him “an old White man,” i.e. everything Obama hates. Gave him periphery assignments like Ukraine policy. Well, that one turned out to be very profitable for Joseph and Hunter Biden, and devastating for everyone else. Good call.
Say it ain’t so Joe…. The Russians are a tenacious people, they can endure a lot, not like Americans who have pretty much been spoon fed the comforts of life and all the things that come with it… We should be warned that this is a dangerous game we play and it can always come back at us, in some fashion…
From what I understand most Americans see this as an opportunity of a lifetime to neuter the Russian army. And almost for free too.
Hi Don:
Do you think either side could do it without going nuclear?…
Hi Donna,
I don’t think Putin’s inner circle would let him push that button. They would feel forced to act and just remove him from his post. These men might be fairly loyal now, but they want to live and they have their own families to think about too.
They are not willing do let them die for Putin’s imperialistic ambitions.
Your’s is a fair and reasonable assessment. Let us all hope you are highly accurate too!
And what about our inner circle? Atr they prepared for Anericans dying?
Is US leadership prepared to give up Ukraine for the sake of saving Americans?
As for Putun’s advisors, should US go for broke, they will be there to push that button as well. They know that surrendering to American global coercive stance will soell doom to their children and many other chikdren would be added to “worth it” category.
I am olacing my hope in Pentagon. They know the realities. While we have brought
our missile capabilities to Russia’s borders,
Europe may not be very happy to sacrifice itself. Yes, Russia is vulnerable from European angle, but so is Europe.
US does not mind European demise. All in
category of “worth it”.
But US is vulnerable from Russian far East as well as under water. Experts like you should know that Russian Avangard is respinsible for US defence planners loss of sleep. So is Burevestnik (North Wind Herald), or Poseidon, We talk about Russian Kinzhal (Chechen word for dagger) or Zircon. They are old news.
Why mentioning them? To understand better that we are vulnerable. Out missile defense is sub-par — to put it generously.
So, what would Biden’s advisors say?
Take a chance to hit Russian European cities from short distance and hope that Russia will not have capabilities to retaliate?
Take a chance, in other words, that in order to wrestle Ukraine away from neighboring Russia we are willing to risk mainland US?
Hope somebody has thought that through, and figured out — is it worth it?
“And what about our inner circle? “
Your inner circle is in Kremlin, if you are an American then I’m from Mars.
That is it? You are reduced to Zelensky school of warfare — just call everyone a traitor!
What you do not realize — I have given you an opportunity to argue your points of view.
Every time you reply in a cliché . When you run out of your standard set of cliché vocabulary — you get personal. You are not genuine nor sincere . Thus cannot be taken seriously.
You, my dear, aren’t honest with your identity.
Pretending to be an American when you clearly aren’t, qualifies you as an internet troll.
You are not genuine nor sincere, hence you cannot be taken seriously.
He’s been a member of Disqus for five days and has posted about 300 comments.
Trolls are like raccoons. If you feed them, they keep coming back for more. Disqus has a block feature for a reason.
And you comrade, belong in gulag.
The world badly needs more men from Venus.
🍆
Are your really off your meds?
Russia can’t even overpower a poor nation like Ukraine.
Do you in your wettest dreams really think they could threaten the US mainland?
Sorry, but you are definitely not the sharpest tool in the shed…
How exactly? Most American do not know what is good for their own pocketbook. For a long time now. Since Nixon nixed gold standard. Since Clinton spun a sham of dor-coms. We are still paying for that debacle that made some rich, and accelerated a torrent of Fed money magic. This is why we are still on the levell of nineties purchase power. That was turned into tsunami in 2008, and sea changes with uber convenient COVID.
As the spending is no longer possible due to the global lack of interest in purchasing our Treasuries, time came for another adrenaline shot to moribund American public! Russia! Excutement! We are goid guys! Can conquer Russia with CNN headlines! And the riches of Russia are within reach!
Just kerp on paying. Tax time!
Sorry Bianca, but don’t pretend to be an American, not with your English. You are a Ruski.
And yes, it’s a bargain. Send weapons for 20 billion dollars to Ukraine, neutralise the Russian army and cut the defense budget with 250 billion.
Ukrainian troll, Your Azov buddies will soon be gone is one big blood letting.
Russian troll, Your Wagner buddies will soon be gone is one big blood letting.
Got you! You admit to being a Ukrainian turd! Your Saint Zelensky will soon be eliminated.
Got you! You admit to being a Russian turd! Your Master Putin will soon be eliminated.
Low IQ is and lack of knowledge about the English language causing you to repeat a logical comment. I have heard that the educational system in Ukraine was none existent. Just another Ukrainian clown like your Zelensky.
Haha, Low IQ is and lack of knowledge about the English language causing you to make irrational comments. I have heard that the educational system in Russia is none existent. Just another Ruski clown like your master Putin
Lieutenant Colonel Denis Glebov was killed near the city of Chuhuiv, according to Russian media.
He was serving as Deputy Commander of the 11th Separate Airborne Assault Brigade of the Russian Armed Forces.
His funeral was held on Sunday 6 March, Russian media reported.
The zinc coffin is standing in the entrance hall of the university.
Yury Dushkin was a private in the Russian army. A notice in the hall states that he died in combat in Ukraine under artillery fire. Dushkin was 23.
His mother Olga is sitting on one of the folding chairs next to the coffin, holding a photo of her son in her hands. It shows a young man in uniform peering earnestly into the camera with a narrow face and slightly protruding ears.
In Samara, 1,000 kilometers southeast of Moscow on the Volga River, a school teacher writes: “Today, we are saying goodbye to Ivan Frolov. He died in the performance of his military and civic duties during the ‘special mission’ in Ukraine.”
In the Leningrad region near St. Petersburg in northwestern Russia, an internet portal reports: “Our compatriot Sergey Soloyev fell heroically in the performance of his duties as a solider. He was a Russian patriot and served bravely. His death is a tragedy for relatives and friends, for all the people of Podporozhye.
He had entered Ukraine on the orders of Russian ruler Vladimir Putin, as so many soldiers have since the war began on Feb. 24. In Russia, it is forbidden to call it a “war” and it instead has to be referred to as a “special military operation.”
Lt Col Vitaly Slabtsov, 43, was an elite paratrooper buried with full military honours, say reports.
Reports suggest Slabtsov was killed during a special operation in Donbas, Ukraine, although not many details have emerged regarding his death.
Slabtsov’s funeral was held in Ryazan in central Russia, home of Russian paratroopers, on Friday. His body was placed in a closed coffin, indicating he had suffered devastating wounds in the war.
Additionally, it was announced this week that top Russian general Col Denis Kurilo had died along with 1,500 troops.
The commander of the 200th motorised rifle brigade died in fighting outside Kharkiv, the second largest city in Ukraine.
Just three days prior, Ukraine announced Lt Gen Yakov Rezantsev, 48, was the seventh general and the second lieutenant general to be killed in the invasion.
Colonel Alexander Bespalov – who led the 59th Guards Tank Regiment – was given a funeral in the central city of Ozersk on Friday.
No details have been given about his death after it was revealed in a now-deleted post on a local messaging board – but the commander’s demise follows the killing of eight other senior officers in the conflict.
A source in the Tatarstan region of Russia said: ‘Commander of the rocket artillery division, Lt-Col Dmitry Pavlovich Dormidontov, died while on duty,’ said an account.
‘An enemy mine hit exactly in his dugout, where there were three officers: a division commander, a battalion commander and an aircraft controller.’
Another loss was Lt-Col Igor Zharov who was buried in Kirzhach town, Vladimir region.
And in late Mach, Russian Army Commander General Vlaislav Yershov, of the 6th Combined Arms Army, was sacked by Putin due to the heavy losses and strategic failures.
Russian brigade commander Colonel Yuri Medvedev was even run down with a tank by his own mutinous troops.
Colonel Nikolay Ovcharenko, chief of the Western Military District engineer troops, was killed in an ambush that left a total of 18 Russians dead by a pontoon bridge over the Siverskyi Donets River.
Colonel Alexei Sharov, commander of the 810th Guards Separate Order of Zhukov Brigade in the Russian Marines, was killed in Mariupol in March.
Colonel Andrei Zakharov was killed in an ambush near Kyiv in the opening days of the war, while Colonel Konstantin Zizevsky who led air assault troops died in the south of Ukraine
On top of the colonels, at least seven Russian generals have been killed in fighting, more than during the entire 10-year brutal Soviet campaign in Afghanistan in the 1980s where five generals died.
The latest to die, Lieutenant General Yakov Rezanstev, was a commander of Russia’s 49th Combined Arms Army in its southern military district.
A clever ploy, just as likely to succeed as all the other efforts. Poor bacon.
Poor little Putin, all alone in his palace.
His troops are loosing and he can feel the cancer eating him up from the inside…
Why bother to keep repeating this? Every other ignorant western “journalist” in every bit of the MSM says this.
Just like the rest of the world did to us when we bombed Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Mali, Grenada, Panama, and others, while sanctioning Iraq to the point that 500,000 (it was worth it) Iraqi children died, while sanctioning Afghanistan, causing a humanitarian crisis that will lead to hundreds of thousands of deaths. Oh, yeah, we were sanctioned, cut off economically.
The Russian Investigative Committee persists in its work, with 100 researchers unearthing evidence of war crimes across Donbass to be presented at a tribunal in the near future, most probably set up in Donetsk.
As soon as you’re born, they make you feel small
By giving you no time instead of it all
‘Til the pain is so big you feel nothing at all
A working class hero is something to be
A working class hero is something to be
They hurt you at home and they hit you at school
They hate you if you’re clever and they despise a fool
‘Til you’re so fucking crazy you can’t follow their rules
A working class hero is something to be
A working class hero is something to be
When they’ve tortured and scared you for 20 odd years
Then they expect you to pick a career
When you can’t really function, you’re so full of fear
A working class hero is something to be
A working class hero is something to be
Keep you doped with religion and sex and TV
And you think you’re so clever and classless and free
But you’re still fucking peasants as far as I can see
A working class hero is something to be
A working class hero is something to be
There’s room at the top they are telling you still
But first you must learn how to smile as you kill
If you want to be like the folks on the hill
A working class hero is something to be
A working class hero is something to be
If you want to be a hero, well, just follow me
If you want to be a hero, well, just follow me
John Lennon
Worth reading is Once in a Century Event by Alistair Crooke.
Ir perhaps better put — 50 year anniversary event.
It was in 1971 that Nixon took dollar off gold standard. It was exactly 50 yeas later, in December of 2021 that US reffused to sign a non-agression agreement with Russia — an event that precipitated the proxy war,
Now, the return to gold standard, gradually. Rouble has been set to 5000=1 gram of gold. It will be for trade only, not speculative buying. So far, oul, gas payments. Loiks like other commodities may follow — grain, metals, fertilizers, water.
As the rate is very favorable (ounce of gold only 1250 dollars), Asian traders will jump at the opportunity, whole Europe vascilafes. Europe can buy goids from the, giving hefty profits to traders.
Why do you think UAE has bern strangelly siding with Russia? Or why has China heavily investing at UAE. For that matter Israel is quite ready to putv a toe in the door of that financial hub — clearlyy being repurposed from London city capital greasing the Asian markets, to Chinese-Russian center for greasing European and other glibal markets. UAE signed the deal with Russia on number of frints, the biggest being a jount coproduction of Russian 5gen warplanes in UAE. Already had a space prigram partnership. UAE trying to leverage money into high tech inndustrues.
Add to that Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Egypt entering SCO club last August, and picture gets comolete.
Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin said Friday that her country’s Parliament is set to discuss possible NATO membership “within the coming weeks,” adding that she hopes these discussions will wrap up “before midsummer.”
Swedish Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson did not rule out the possibility of membership in an interview with SVT at the end of March. Sweden is undertaking an analysis of security policy that’s due to be completed by the end of May, and the government is expected to announce its position following that report. They said their nation could make its position public sooner, depending on when neighboring Finland does.
“The Finns think that if Putin can slaughter his sisters, brothers and cousins in Ukraine, as he is doing now, then there is nothing stopping him from doing it in Finland. We simply don’t want to be left alone again,” the Finnish man said, recalling the Soviet-Finnish Winter War, which lasted from November 1939 to March 1940.
On January 1 of 1917 the territory of Finland was a Grand Principality of the Czarist Empire. Its borders were close to Saint Petersburgh and roughly one-half of Lake Ladoga was in that GP. In December of 1917 Finland declared independence. Soon thereafter the Lenin government and the Soviet authority recognized Finland’s independence. The borders of Finland became identical to the borders of the Grand Principality.
The Soviet-Finnish Winter War did provide Stalin with some success. The Finnish border was moved away from Lake Ladoga and Saint Petersburgh. Russia also obtained two nickel-rich regions further northward.
Yes, Finland wants to avoid another attack from its volatile and violent neighbour.
NATO is happy to get a new long border with Russia, and a firm grip of the Nordic region. It will give them full control of the Baltic Sea.
Time, is always on Russian side, yes it is.
Where the French, American and Swedish Military Advisors working with Ukrainian Nazi Groups Killed Today?
A cargo ship registered in Dominica by a Fairhaven-based company has been attacked and sunk by Russian forces in the beseiged Ukrainian port of Mariupol. The Kyiv regime made another attempt to evacuate the leaders of the Ukrainian Nazis from Mariupol, this time by sea. This was told to journalists by the official representative of the Russian Defense Ministry, Major General Igor Konashenkov.
Poor Joe and poor USA. Punishment added to more punishment, for anyone daring to follow the USA’s world peace and harmony recipe.
Boris Johnson made a surprise trip to Kyiv yesterday to meet the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, pledging a major new infusion of British arms and financial aid to help counter the expected deadly new phase in Russia’s military offensive.
After the meeting, the prime minister said: “Ukraine has defied the odds and pushed back Russian forces from the gates of Kyiv, achieving the greatest feat of arms of the 21st century.
Last night No 10 said Britain would send 120 armoured vehicles and new Harpoon anti-ship missile systems to Ukraine. The missiles can do serious damage to Russian warships and could be used to tackle the Russian navy siege of Black Sea ports.
The UK pledged £100m in military assistance last week, including another 800 anti-tank missiles, more anti-aircraft weapons, “suicide drones”, and helmets, body armour and night-vision goggles. ✌️
I hope Russian sailors are good swimmers…
We finally have high level confirmation from Russian officials that NATO instructors and foreign fighters are trapped in Mariupol. Russian State Duma member Adam Delimkhanov in an interview with RT stated he estimates around 100 NATO instructors and foreigners are there, and that they are in communications with them. They are trying to negotiate a release via escape corridor.
Igor Konashenkov confirms that significant numbers of foreign fighters are trapped in Mariupol because Russia can hear their intercepted communications in over 6 different languages.
It is time for these Western leaders to be arrested and presented to the Hague to answer for their many many crimes against humanity.
The Finnish government is poised to formally apply for NATO membership “before midsummer” and potentially as early as May.
Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin stated Friday that the country would vote “before midsummer” on sending an application to join NATO. Former Prime Minister Alexander Stubb says the vote will likely happen as early as May, according to Agence France-Presse.
This is what happens when you attack your neighbour, other states make sure to receive protection. Result: More NATO troops along Russia’s border. Well done, Putin 😵💫
Finish and Swedish troops are trapped in Mariupol. This is leverage to get them out. War crimes tribunals await these criminals.
Ukraine targets and murders its own citizens in huge numbers, rape, torture, assassinations mass murder is an epidemic in Banderite Ukraine. Corporate Media is complicit.
Hehe, there are no Finnish or Swedish troops in Mariupol.
The Wagner boys are all rapists and sadistic killers.
Here is the ugly truth nobody wants to openly admit: the Empire of Hate and Lies is attempting to genocide Russia and the Empire of Hate and Lies is ALREADY genociding the people of the Ukraine. Their crime of course being they are ethnic Russians.
“the Empire of Hate and Lies is ALREADY genociding the people of the Ukraine.”
You are absolutely right, the perpetrators are a nazi outfit called the Wagner Group. Raping women and killing children. Disgusting!
Congratulations, you are b@tshit crazy.
There’s no Iran thread today, so I’m posting this here:
The thing with those JCPOA negotiations for me was – EVERY. SINGLE.
DAY. – Antiwar would say “the deal is almost done, both sides are just
waiting for the other side to agree to the MAIN CONDITIONS OF THE DEAL FROM THE START”. In other words, the core requirements of Iran were 1) the US to get back into the deal, 2) the US to suspend all sanctions from before the deal and since the deal, and 3) guarantee that the US would stay in the deal. In return, Iran would reverse everything it did since the deal and return to the deal’s requirements on their nuclear
energy program.
It wasn’t rocket science. All the US had to do, if it was sincere about wanting to get back into the deal, was to accept those three Iranian requirements.
But I knew from day one that Joe “I’m a Zionist” Biden was not sincere and couldn’t be sincere. Despite the fact that he made it a campaign promise – and for the record, since when has any of his campaign promises come true, let alone an other US President’s campaign
promises – it was obvious he couldn’t do it. Even he wanted to – and I
didn’t believe he did – the opposition from Israel – and therefore Congress – would make it impossible.
But EVERY. SINGLE. DAY. for months on end, it was reported that both
sides had pretty much agreed and the deal was near. Except there was
always a sentence in the report to the effect that one side or the other
was not agreeing to “something”, said something either left unsaid or
was explicitly said to be one of the core requirements of the Iranians.
In the latter case, how could one possibly say that the deal was “close”
when one or more of the core requirements was still not agreed to?
Again, this went on for MONTHS. It was insane. And every day I posted
my doubts on that threat on Antiwar.com. And I was assured by moronic
Pollyannas that it was going to happen.
Even when the US became desperate to get Iran’s oil back on the market, along with Venezuela’s, I doubted. The US and Israel’s fundamental animosity toward Iran simply wouldn’t allow it to happen.
And I was right. So here I am crowing that I was right.