Tag: Russia -Ukraine

Enviroment

Environmental Hazard: How Russia’s War in Ukraine Threatens the Planet

There is no debate to be had Putin’s invasion of Ukraine is simply WRONG on so many levels. NATO may have provoked but Putin took the bait and attacked resulting the planet being threatened like never before.

And then there’s the link between climate and security. “We should work to combine security issues with the environmental and climate agenda,” Ackermann concludes. “This war revealed so many things that we hadn’t seen, that we didn’t want to see, so we’d closed our eyes. Now they are revealed, and we have to be working on that.”

Source: Environmental Hazard: How Russia’s War in Ukraine Threatens the Planet

China

China’s peace plan shot down by Western propaganda machine

The Chinese attempts to help resolve the Ukraine war via a 12-point plan for negotiations have been met with hostility from the USA and its allies, writes Dr William Briggs.

Source: China’s peace plan shot down by Western propaganda machine

Media

Terror on Crimea Bridge and Russia unleashing shock’n awe – Pearls and Irritations

Kerch Strait Bridge Crimea - image: AP

Informed or Uninformed Opinion? Is this what Russian Propaganda in English looks like or is this the real cutting-edge reporting? Who are we to believe?

Media Wars

How a humiliated western Empire can possibly raise the stakes now, short of going nuclear, remains a key question. Moscow has shown admirable restraint for too long. No one should ever forget that in the real Great Game – how to coordinate the emergence of the multipolar world – Ukraine is just a mere sideshow. But now the sideshow runners better run for cover, because General Armageddon is on the loose.

Source: Terror on Crimea Bridge and Russia unleashing shock’n awe – Pearls and Irritations

Media

Conditioned for War with Russia – Consortium News

Ray McGovern reviews key pieces of background that — thanks to the media — few Americans know about the widest war in 77 years that is now on our doorstep.

Source: Conditioned for War with Russia – Consortium News

Russia

How Will Russia’s War in Ukraine End?

 

El-Tayyab told The Intercept it is crucial that Congress not implement Russian sanctions by statute, because doing so would later require a vote to lift them. Very few lawmakers would be willing to cast such a vote, and the failure would deprive Zelenskyy and the Biden administration of the flexibility to lift sanctions amid negotiations. “If the Biden administration shows it’s willing to lift sanctions if peace talks are successful, and champions possibilities for compromise as they emerge, it can positively contribute to ending the conflict and suffering of millions of innocent Ukrainians,” El-Tayyab said.

Source: How Will Russia’s War in Ukraine End?

Studied Analysis

Russia Invasion of Ukraine Highlights Ugly Truths About U.S. and NATO

Putin and Trump rely on Democracies not to simply prosecute their actions but sit and examine all the pros and cons from every angle and over a great length of time normalizing them. In the meantime people or victims are left to fend for themselves. Trump has spent his life not being prosecuted for his life-long bad behaviors, throwing dead cats on the table to rationalize and get away with with his misdoings. Isn’t there a danger in saying there’s good and bad on both sides or saying two sides are the same when they’re not!

The fact that Putin is trying to justify the unjustifiable in Ukraine does not mean we must ignore the U.S. actions that fuel his narrative.

Source: Russia Invasion of Ukraine Highlights Ugly Truths About U.S. and NATO

LNP, LNP Government

Russia-Ukraine conflict: Australia will slap direct sanctions on Vladimir Putin. In fact, the Minister is seeking advice from the department

Marise Payne, Foreign Affairs Minister, speaks about Australia’s personal sanctions against Russian leader Vladimir Putin.

‘He has lied, deceived, fabricated’: Australia to slap direct sanctions on Putin

Let’s not take things at face value too quickly Marissa Payne. John Howard, along with Bush and Blair, lied, deceived, fabricated, and took us into Iraq. The Americans allied themselves with Osama Bin Laden to get the Russians out of Afghanistan and install a puppet government. Weren’t they doing what Putin is? Or is Putin doing what is the American norm. Under the Monroe Doctrine and the “Domino Theory”, they ” took care of their interests” anywhere on the planet?

Finland is a Socialist Democracy bordering Russia but is not declaring it wants to be a part of NATO. It’s not threatening or being threatened by Putin or being invaded. It too historically was once a part of the Tsarist Russian Empire. The Russians took missiles to Cuba and there was an immediate and imminent threat of nuclear war as a consequence America has sanctioned them for over 60 years.

What seems significant is that governments that aren’t “servants of their people” and lead from the top down all suffer the same disease the paranoiac fear of the personal loss of power. The very opposite of any real Social Democracy, any real democratization of power. When the shit hits the fan they then ask why didn’t the people do anything? Where do Morrison and Albo lie on that continuum of power, servants of or servicing Australian citizens?

Australia will look to impose direct sanctions on Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, while Australia’s top diplomat Marise Payne has left the door open to the possible expulsion of Canberra-based Russian diplomats. Senator Payne said Putin was being targeted because he was “personally responsible for the deaths and the suffering of innocent Ukrainians”. Marise Payne, Foreign Affairs Minister, speaks about Australia’s personal sanctions against Russian leader Vladimir Putin.

Source: Russia-Ukraine conflict: Australia will slap direct sanctions on Vladimir Putin. In fact, the Minister is seeking advice from the department

LNP, LNP Government

Russia-Ukraine: How Scott Morrison will use crisis to shape 2022 federal election outcome

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison talking tough after Russia invaded Ukraine.

1% of the global sanctioning of Russia by Australia is a flea on an elephant’s back. The bellowing roar is however is for Morrison’s political sake folks. Our 1% only as a global emitter of CO2 was his excuse for doing nothing about being one of the biggest exporters of carbon. He wanted to be as quiet as a church mouse. That again has been for his donors interests and his domestic political sake. His even bigger silence at present is not to sanction but to reward Rupert Murdoch whose media org Fox is the biggest Putin lover and Russian propagandist in America and that silence is also for Morrison’s own political sake. Because as I write he’s dishing out a share of his current advertising war-chest of $680M on News Corp, Foxtel and Sky News. The Putin lover Murdoch’s are in fact the LNP’s media voice in Australia and he has the gall to call Albo “a Red under the bed”!

As Russia’s attack on Ukraine unfolds dramatically, Australia is in the choir stalls, not centre stage, when it comes to the West’s response. But Scott Morrison is determined its voice be loud. His denunciation of the Russian “thugs” and “bullies” has been cast in the most forceful language. After announcing sanctions on Wednesday, he assured Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal that Australia, working with its partners, was prepared to do more.

Source: Russia-Ukraine: How Scott Morrison will use crisis to shape 2022 federal election outcome