I have been musing a certain idea for some time already.
The foreign pro-russian camp seems to be much less politically homogenous than the atlanticist camp.
Regardless of some troll’s recent misguided comments, I’m pretty damn sure that MoA has the entire political spectrum covered.

Posted by: Misotheist | Mar 10 2022 15:43 utc | 4

In some parts of LA gas is over $6.00 per gallon as of 3/8/22..
Skys the limit. “never let a crisis go to waste”….

Posted by: vetinLA | Mar 10 2022 15:46 utc | 6

Posted by: jo6pac | Mar 10 2022 15:27 utc | 2
5.70 in the Sierras. I’m sure Joe has a plan too, like in Papillion. He promised they’d help us out at the pump. He promised a lot of stuff. I’m seeing posters up here saying 25 or 22, whatever that means.
Manteca rules. LOL.

Posted by: Bones | Mar 10 2022 16:08 utc | 8

Posted by: Bones | Mar 10 2022 16:08 utc | 8
joe b. promised us 2000.00 but still owes us 600.00. It’s nothing new govt.

Posted by: jo6pac | Mar 10 2022 16:39 utc | 10

Lots of price inflation related posts here.
The US has $30T in debt and another 5x that in unfunded liabilities. Unless debt used for increases in productivity, debt is GDP borrowed from the future. The purpose of the US Fed/Treasury QE and ZIRP, virtually continuous since the 2000 tech crash, has been to prevent a demographic driven deflationary spiral.
The bottom line is almost everyone is going to get a lot poorer over this decade, inflation (really currency devaluation) is just the tool to get you there.
Plan accordingly.

Posted by: Opport Knocks | Mar 10 2022 16:49 utc | 12

EU nations have begun their censorship by blocking access to Rt and Sputniknews, the actual websites! But remember when the blocking occur, one could still reach the websites through a VPN or Tor browser.
Most likely EU legislation is already in the work to fine or jail people spreading such links or views one could find at Rt and Sputniknews!

Posted by: Zanon | Mar 10 2022 17:05 utc | 14

A number of points here: If stagflation takes firm hold on the US, their sanctions empire may be done. With the dollar becoming a liability because of potential sanctions (as in ‘we don’t like you, so your money goes poof !’), inflation would be the icing on the cake. Imagine 10% plus inflation meaning that 10% of the one trillion dollars China holds vanishes in a year. Imagine aircraft carriers going home for good and bases closing.
Another point: Russia doesn’t have to sell as much in exports if those commodities go up in price.
Finally, Biden announced a move towards a digital dollar. What fool would have enthusiasm for such a thing knowing that its value can be erased that much easier than freezing a bank account?

Posted by: Eighthman | Mar 10 2022 17:07 utc | 16

juliania 17
if there’s a Tulsi Gabbard analog in NZ, that would be the politician to watch, assuming civilian elections moving forward.

Posted by: reante | Mar 10 2022 17:20 utc | 18

@ Juliania #17
Most western democracies voted themselves into this mess, and with the current levels of election corruption, they are not going to be able to vote themselves out of it. Similarly, when the choice is between lesser evils on these same ballots, voting is an exercise in futility.
Something will give eventually, and break certainly.

Posted by: Oilman2 | Mar 10 2022 17:26 utc | 20

There was a time when I minimised the cries of the the BLM movement. Now, there is no doubt, or no ambiguity that non white lives does NOT matter , regardless, whatever, wherever by the civilised west

Posted by: Cuffy | Mar 10 2022 17:51 utc | 22

C1ue (3)
Your fuel looks very cheap. Thanks to US policy diesel now costs €2.39 / litre
Try living at EU prices now US policy has cut off fertilizer sales from Russia and the drive from DC to cut off coal, gas, oil from Russia should crash Europe so it can end up like Syria when the Neo-Nazis slide into Poland and Moldova then Romania

Posted by: Paul Greenwood | Mar 10 2022 18:52 utc | 24

regarding fuel prices,
this morning I took delivery of off-road diesel at $3.92/gal. I placed the order at the beginning of last week. The driver said today’s price is $4.70.

Posted by: reante | Mar 10 2022 19:19 utc | 26

Posted by: reante | Mar 10 2022 17:25 utc | 19:

Russia and China decoupling is them no longer accepting a subordinate role under the petrodollar hegemony.

I don’t think China or Russia ever considered themselves subordinated. They tolerated but have always resisted when redlines were crossed. Reading MSM media spins alone would give one the wrong impressions that both Russia and China were subservient to the Empire up until now.

Posted by: Oriental Voice | Mar 10 2022 19:55 utc | 28

The way things are going I’ll have to search in the old storage for the short wave radio, back to the old days, mid.ru site does not load, and plenty more Russian sites, there’s going to be Telegram and not much more, and who knows for how long. The digital iron curtain is here.
Posted by: migueljose | Mar 10 2022 19:45 utc | 28
That caught my attention, Lavrov meeting Delcy, but not only, he met with Azerbaijan and Armenia FM’s. Turkey is becoming a key hub, not very reliable but if properly induced with the help of China it could be the one, maybe Erdogan has noticed which way the wind is blowing.

Posted by: Paco | Mar 10 2022 20:07 utc | 30

Oriental Voice 29
Questions: are the Russian and Chinese cultures natively finance capitalist? did the two countries establish their own systems of finance capitalism or did they join the existing Western system as developing mercantilist nations? Was Russia’s use of the petrodollar required in order to sell oil or was it voluntary? Is China’s renminbi free floating or is it pegged to the dollar?

Posted by: reante | Mar 10 2022 20:15 utc | 32

Sudden death of vocal ALP Israel apologist, China and Russia critic Senator Kimberly Kitching.
Senator Kitching, 52, died of a suspected heart attack.
Here’s how the AFR reported it:
“The affable Senator Kitching was a fierce human rights campaigner, an early and strident critic of China, a defender of national security, and one of Labor’s best senators in terms of holding the government to account.
Senator Kitching’s legacy includes playing an instrumental role in passing the Magnitsky laws which enable the targeting of human rights abusers. These laws are now being used by the government to impose sanctions on Russian oligarchs in response to the war in Ukraine….”
This follows the sudden death of elite cricket legend and Covid vaccination advocate Shane Warne, also 52.
https://www.republicworld.com/sports-news/tennis-news/shane-warne-takes-fresh-dig-at-novak-djokovic-australia-is-entitled-to-throw-him-out-articleshow.html
https://www.news.com.au/sport/cricket/antivaxxer-trolls-hijack-shane-warnes-death/news-story/c1b84e32411c5ed37f34c2f12a72274f
Flowers, beer cigarettes and meat pies at Warne’s statue:
https://www.news24.com/sport/Cricket/flowers-beers-ciggies-and-a-meat-pie-australian-fans-mark-warnes-death-20220305

Posted by: Paul | Mar 10 2022 20:32 utc | 34

Posted by: Roland Chrisjohn | Mar 10 2022 20:36 utc | 36
Uncle Tungsten recommended Lazyweb.ai some time ago.
LazyWeb is now called Andi
Andi is a new type of conversational search engine. It’s ad-free and anonymous, and returns only the best and most relevant results. We wanted to let you know about the change so you can update your bookmarks. We changed the name to Andi after a ton of feedback from our community. That was already the name of our little bot
andi is non political. I am happy with it.

Posted by: Paul | Mar 10 2022 20:54 utc | 36

@reate, #33:
Geez you asked loaded questions, and theoretical/ideological at that :-). I can’t vow for Russian perspectives, but for China my understanding is that China acts in the mode of being socialistic, in both industrial policies, financial policies, or legal policies. Some of their financial tactics may look ‘capitalistic’ to pundits and bullshitters, but China still considers them socialistic regardless whether others think likewise. That’s why they label it as “socialism with Chinese characteristic”. Capitalistic, Socialistic, Monopolistic, these are just labels. The reality is reflected in the long run on who actually benefited from the policies. China’s elimination of poverty proved that China has been “socialistic”, no matter what others called them at one time or another. They executed flexibly, patiently, and avoided uncalled for risks, but at no time did they allowed Americanos to call the shot and take advantage over them. That is, they would not be subordinated to the Empire.
China saw it lagged behind in development. To catch up they thought they need to integrate into the then existing global economy. So, they did what it took to do so, at their best effort. If you think that was joining the Western System or mercantilism, so be it. Whatever it was they did well, many other similar developing nations/economies strived for the same thing at the same time, and now emerged with varying degrees of success. Not a single other nation did any where as close to that well as China has.

Posted by: Oriental Voice | Mar 10 2022 21:06 utc | 38

Some good news for a change:
Protestors pelt the argentinian parliament while some IMF scam was being discussed inside.

Posted by: Misotheist | Mar 10 2022 21:36 utc | 40

Search engine
https://yandex.com/
I use for translations also.
I haven’t had problem of late on RT

Posted by: jo6pac | Mar 10 2022 21:47 utc | 42

It’s a gloomy day here; maybe recourse to literature wouldn’t hurt. So here:

“…Sometimes, in the evening, about dusk, at the hour when the garden was solitary, he was seen kneeling, in the middle of the walk that ran along the chapel, before the window through which he had looked, on the night of his first arrival, turned towards the spot where he knew that the sister who was performing the reparation was prostrate in prayer. Thus he prayed, kneeling before this sister.
It seemed as though he dared not kneel directly before God.
Everything around him, this quiet garden, these balmy flowers, these children shouting with joy, these meek and simple women, this silent cloister, gradually entered into all his being; and little by little his soul subsided into silence like this cloister, into fragrance like these flowers, into peace like this garden, into simplicity like these women, into joy like these children. And then he reflected that two houses of God had received him in succession at the two critical moments of his life; the first when every door was closed and human society repelled him; the second when human society again howled upon this track and the galleys once more gaped for him; and that had it not been for the first, he should have fallen back into crime, and had it not been for the second, into punishment…”[Les Miserables]

Ah, there’s the title of Dostoievski’s novel!

Posted by: juliania | Mar 10 2022 21:52 utc | 44

“Anyone know how to reach Rt.com when west have blocked the access to it?”
You mean a VPN doesn’t work?

Posted by: ian | Mar 10 2022 21:56 utc | 46

Reminder that censorship has a suppression side and a control side. You can develop the control side while the end user does not experience any downside. Then once you start using the control side things can go very fast.
The tolerance for censorship then is visibility and reputation based: one is tolerant towards the removal of low visibility stuff with bad reputation and objects to removing good visible stuff. Therefore once you have a mainstream and the channels it dominates with sufficient level of groupthink, they really won’t mind if those on the outside who distrust this mainstream get suppressed.
The current level of groupthink on the foreign policy front is obscene, so I do get slightly worried about a major cleanup.

Posted by: Tuyzentfloot | Mar 10 2022 21:58 utc | 48

ian
You mean a VPN doesn’t work?
I tried Tor browser but I still cannot reach Rt,
do you know if there are any free VPN to use?
Tuyzentfloot
It is really terrible, and there are NO protets, condemnations in the censorship, since europeans today legislated to ban RT and Sputnik, they took away the biggest and best sites! Millions are following these sites and now europeans cant access them anymore!? How could this be legal?
This censorship is so creepy and dangerous. As you say ‘groupthink’. Terrible development.

Posted by: Zanon | Mar 10 2022 22:10 utc | 50

@Zanon (40)
RT.com is reachable.

Posted by: bjd | Mar 10 2022 22:16 utc | 52

I am reposting this valuable post by Flying Dutchman. Posted by: Flying Dutchman | Mar 9 2022 18:45 utc | 18
“Following WWI John Maynard Keynes tried to explain how the European economy was so bound together that the economic crippling of one key part of it, Germany by way of the Versailles Treaty, was bound to lead to general economic disaster.
Evidently, the US and its Eurominions took this so much to heart as a desirable general murder-suicide that they’re not even waiting for the end of a war but jumping right to the project of destroying the globally intertwined economy by attempting to cripple one key part of it.
The wonderful irony is that Russia is in a much better position to survive this destruction while it guarantees the collapse of the empire and especially the empire’s lackey Europe.
(Amazing how in just over a hundred years Europe has gone from world domination to the gates of a new dark age from which it likely never will emerge, as nowhere on earth has less of a future. Good riddance, for its despicable cowardly subservience to the empire.)
Following WWI John Maynard Keynes tried to explain how the European economy was so bound together that the economic crippling of one key part of it, Germany by way of the Versailles Treaty, was bound to lead to general economic disaster.
Evidently, the US and its Eurominions took this so much to heart as a desirable general murder-suicide that they’re not even waiting for the end of a war but jumping right to the project of destroying the globally intertwined economy by attempting to cripple one key part of it.
The wonderful irony is that Russia is in a much better position to survive this destruction while it guarantees the collapse of the empire and especially the empire’s lackey Europe.
(Amazing how in just over a hundred years Europe has gone from world domination to the gates of a new dark age from which it likely never will emerge, as nowhere on earth has less of a future. Good riddance, for its despicable cowardly subservience to the empire.)
Posted by: Flying Dutchman | Mar 9 2022 18:45 utc | 18Following WWI John Maynard Keynes tried to explain how the European economy was so bound together that the economic crippling of one key part of it, Germany by way of the Versailles Treaty, was bound to lead to general economic disaster.
Evidently, the US and its Eurominions took this so much to heart as a desirable general murder-suicide that they’re not even waiting for the end of a war but jumping right to the project of destroying the globally intertwined economy by attempting to cripple one key part of it.
The wonderful irony is that Russia is in a much better position to survive this destruction while it guarantees the collapse of the empire and especially the empire’s lackey Europe.
(Amazing how in just over a hundred years Europe has gone from world domination to the gates of a new dark age from which it likely never will emerge, as nowhere on earth has less of a future. Good riddance, for its despicable cowardly subservience to the empire.)
Posted by: Flying Dutchman | Mar 9 2022 18:45 utc | 18Following WWI John Maynard Keynes tried to explain how the European economy was so bound together that the economic crippling of one key part of it, Germany by way of the Versailles Treaty, was bound to lead to general economic disaster.
Evidently, the US and its Eurominions took this so much to heart as a desirable general murder-suicide that they’re not even waiting for the end of a war but jumping right to the project of destroying the globally intertwined economy by attempting to cripple one key part of it.
The wonderful irony is that Russia is in a much better position to survive this destruction while it guarantees the collapse of the empire and especially the empire’s lackey Europe.
(Amazing how in just over a hundred years Europe has gone from world domination to the gates of a new dark age from which it likely never will emerge, as nowhere on earth has less of a future. Good riddance, for its despicable cowardly subservience to the empire.)
Posted by: Flying Dutchman | Mar 9 2022 18:45 utc | 18Following WWI John Maynard Keynes tried to explain how the European economy was so bound together that the economic crippling of one key part of it, Germany by way of the Versailles Treaty, was bound to lead to general economic disaster.
Evidently, the US and its Eurominions took this so much to heart as a desirable general murder-suicide that they’re not even waiting for the end of a war but jumping right to the project of destroying the globally intertwined economy by attempting to cripple one key part of it.
The wonderful irony is that Russia is in a much better position to survive this destruction while it guarantees the collapse of the empire and especially the empire’s lackey Europe.
(Amazing how in just over a hundred years Europe has gone from world domination to the gates of a new dark age from which it likely never will emerge, as nowhere on earth has less of a future. Good riddance, for its despicable cowardly subservience to the empire.)”
The “elite” don’t know history, they know death, destruction, ambition and wishful thinking. It is better to vote for the ones you like best, regardless of their chances, rather than the ones you hate the least.

Posted by: Paul | Mar 10 2022 22:21 utc | 54

Posted by: Unspeakable | Mar 10 2022 22:18 utc | 54
I am not sure if Madeleine Albright should be tried in Belgrade or in Bagdad?

Posted by: Milos | Mar 10 2022 22:26 utc | 56

Paul 55
“The “elite” don’t know history, they know death, destruction, ambition and wishful thinking. It is better to vote for the ones you like best, regardless of their chances, rather than the ones you hate the least.”
That’s not an holistic representation of the elite.
Just for starters, you, me, and everyone we know is alive because the elite enabled the growing of the food that brought us all into existence. Never forget that, because that’s where the holistic view, the circumspection, begins.
That they bred us all into being, as their livestock, their industrial human chattel, means that the elite do know history, that they do know Life, that the do know construction, and that they ARE realists.
Consequently, the current events are part of a managerial restructuring. Who are we to question the wisdom when we know that they pay thousands of people just to think through all this stuff for them?
We can’t let our emotions cloud our thinking.

Posted by: reante | Mar 10 2022 22:34 utc | 58

mastameta 56
You are not understanding where I’m coming from.
If you want to justify the rigid and ideological accusations then I’m all ears, but I don’t expect that you will. Hopefully I’m wrong, though, so that I can make myself more clear.
China could have industrialized only in order to become nuclear armed in order to remain autonomous, and then taken a more libertarian, decentralized approach to the diverse peasantry. Instead of running everyone through the meat grinder of low-wage slavery. And trashing the environment in the process.
That would have been the Third Way.

Posted by: reante | Mar 10 2022 22:42 utc | 60

How is it that I repudiate all ideologies in a comment and I get accused of being ideological lol?

Posted by: reante | Mar 10 2022 22:45 utc | 62

vetinLA | Mar 10 2022 17:06 utc | 15
Russia doesn’t see itself as the master of the Universe as Escobar would say.
Russia is pragmatic and no pretensions. Both the Chinese and Russians are smart, understand history and where the world is at now. China will become far and away the worlds largest economy. It will quite likely lead in tech and a lot of other things. It will always need a supply of raw materials as will other high population density states. Empires should have disappeared with WWII and the advent of nuclear weapons. Yanks built a hegemonic empire but the fat lady’s putting on some makeup now cause that show is just about over.
The sort of weapons we can make now … most understand it is far better to trade than to fight.
Russia and China will be friendly neighbors for past my foreseeable future.
For me, India is a bit of a bump on the horizon. Not sure what will come after Modi there. But that is more about agreeing to a border than expansion and empire.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Mar 11 2022 0:03 utc | 64

Misotheist, you low frequency gatekeeper. You run along now because you can’t back up a thing you say. You say that I do this and that I do that, but you never quote me and explain exactly what it is that I have said that reasonably just your ABCs. You don’t like to grow so your gatekeep your echo chamber.

Posted by: reante | Mar 11 2022 0:08 utc | 66

Posted by: Don Bacon | Mar 10 2022 22:37 utc | 60
Does it work on Damnation Alley?

Posted by: Berndt Braincell | Mar 11 2022 0:11 utc | 68

Posted by: Zanon | Mar 10 2022 22:10 utc | 51
RT shut down, most of its staff layoff permanently except selectively Sputnik radio program, TASS still accessible… like Peter Lavelle and Thomas News at the top of the hour… Since I cannot remember names and poor speller will try to rat as much as possible.
I’m a die hard RT and CGTN viewer, no interests in any MSM and I really missed RT.. further even CGTN are changing their UK fucking production staff are pro Americunts and 5Eyes… and my fuckup ABC refused to talk to me on WhatsApp..
Thomas and two other ladies still reporting.. The ole Ukraine Maidan upraising reporters may still be around not sure.. from 2013/44 still reporting overseas… YouTube channel still on 7/24 live.. Yandex browser
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RVXr2Gvrn4
FaultLine…
https://www.youtube.com/c/FaultLinesRadio/videos

Posted by: JC | Mar 11 2022 0:30 utc | 70

Here more to RT, only in Sputnik, Jamarl Thomas and Faran Fronczak talk about western media…… Thursday 10 March FaultLine… I’ll missed RT’s Boom Bustco-host Christy Ai
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgjR5ijXu9w

Posted by: JC | Mar 11 2022 0:55 utc | 72

For Australian barflies.
The Australian Media is awash with glowing tributes to Senator Kimberly Kitching. Just another Labor Zionist:
https://middleeastrealitycheck.blogspot.com/2018/03/just-another-labor-zionist.html
Here is their disgusting form:
https://middleeastrealitycheck.blogspot.com/search/label/Rambamming
Here is a fantastic 2009 list of compromised political and media figures:figures:
https://middleeastrealitycheck.blogspot.com/2009/03/
Some background:
https://theconversation.com/government-targets-alps-kitching-over-union-past-67123
“…Last week Kitching was preselected amid deep fighting within the Victorian right faction. She and her husband Andrew Landeryou, who previously ran a blog that traduced factional and other enemies, are close friends of Opposition Leader Bill Shorten.
Labor sources said Shorten let his preference for Kitching be known, while factional heavyweights Richard Marles and David Feeney were opposed
Cabinet Secretary Arthur Sinodinos on Sunday highlighted that Kitching, a former official of the Health Services Union, was “someone who was referred by the Heydon royal commission for further investigation
H S Union leaders were jailed over this financial scandal at the expense pf union members.
From [edited and scrubbed] Wiki:
“After leaving Parliament, Landeryou remained active in Labor Party affairs and pursued a career in business.[citation needed] He died on 27 February 2019.[5]
Landeryou’s son Andrew Landeryou became prominent as a businessman and political blogger. His wife Kimberley Kitching was a current Labor Party Senator for Victoria.
In December 2019, former Prime Minister Bob Hawke’s daughter Rosslyn Dillon claimed that Landeryou had committed rape against her three times in 1982, while she was a staffer employed in Landeryou’s office.[6] In an affidavit lodged in the Supreme Court of New South Wales in a suit against her late father’s estate, Ms Dillon claimed that Hawke urged her not to report the matter to police due to his political aspirations.[7] Hawke’s second wife Blanche d’Alpuget claimed neither she nor Bob Hawke knew of Dillon’s allegations.[8]”
The Australian Labor Party, champions of the downtrodden and the dispossessed ! NOT.

Posted by: Paul | Mar 11 2022 1:59 utc | 74

Posted by: reante | Mar 11 2022 0:25 utc | 70
I get absolutely nothing from my five eyes government here in my little South Seas Bubble except endless mind numbing paperwork, bureaucracy and taxes. The government obstructs every legitimate and legal endeavour I attempt to do. Things to make my life more agreeable are prohibited. My local MP and various government agencies refuses to engage with me on a very serious and important personal issue to me. I get the ‘bums rush’ from well schooled staffers. The ‘elite” have no sympathy from me, F them all.
There is no Social Contract anymore the “elite’ want it all their own way.

Posted by: Paul | Mar 11 2022 2:19 utc | 76

https://www.christianpost.com/news/over-3400-nigerian-christians-killed-in-2021-ngo-report.html
At least 3,400 Nigerian Christians killed, 3,000 abducted so far in 2021, NGO estimates The year 2021 was particularly dire for Nigerian Christians. As Breitbart News reported, in the first 200 days of 2021 at least 3,462 Christians were murdered by Islamists in Nigeria, while some 3,000 Christians — many of them girls and young women — were kidnapped during the same period.

Posted by: Stegiel | Mar 11 2022 3:03 utc | 78

I think that China being in the manufacturing phase right now has a lot to do with the it’s allure for some in the West. It’s easy to sell a dream when a country’s firing on all cylinders. Hell, China has both phases going on now. That country is a trip.

Posted by: reante | Mar 11 2022 3:30 utc | 80

Here’s another testament to a truth that fought an uphill battle (and was rolled back down the hill) and yet now is prevailing as the only truth there ever was, the truth that endures after all the lies fall away into their emptiness.
This is Dr. Tess Lawrie’s heart-wrenching plea now to Dr. Andrew Hill to come forward as a whistleblower and reveal the forces that caused him, over a year ago, to influence the World Health Organization and the doctors of the west against ivermectin, when he knew it was a lie.
A Letter To Andrew Hill [19 min video]

In October 2020 Dr Andrew Hill was tasked to report to the World Health Organization on the dozens of new studies from around the world suggesting that Ivermectin could be a remarkably safe and effective treatment for COVID-19.
…
The researcher seeking a global recommendation on Ivermectin had instead recommended against it. What were his reasons for doing so? Were his conclusions justified? Or were external forces influencing his about-face?
One year on, this film recalls exactly what happened from the perspective of somebody that experienced it first hand; Dr Tess Lawrie; also featuring contributions from Dr Pierre Kory and Dr Paul Marik who worked closely with Dr Hill during the same time frame.

This one is for history. And it doesn’t, perhaps, intentionally aim to speak of bravery and cowardice in the face of massive coercion, but in bearing witness to the history of real events, it cannot help but show this for what it is.
Purely as an evocative documentary, this is superb, and I recommend it highly simply as that (and much more, of course).

Posted by: Grieved | Mar 11 2022 4:50 utc | 82

I ended a friendship with a retired doctor over the plandemic bullshit. pussy was my word too. called him a fucking pussy.

Posted by: reante | Mar 11 2022 5:32 utc | 84

European collapse is already in motion. All smart rich non-westerners are now planning to unload their yachts, jets, French and Italian villas, and so on. All non-western central banks are starting to convert their reserves into precious metals with physical deliveries into own vaults. Nobody wants to be the last man standing whose patrimony is seized by lawless West. What it entails is simple – stratospheric rise in the price of gold, and eventual peg of all other commodities to the price of yellow metal. Saudis will not want to sell the oil, if the proceeds net them diminishing quantities of “barbarous relic” as the latter’s price runs further and further away. Countries with large gold deposits will become new central bankers of the world, South Africa first of them all.
This of course will cause catastrophic decline in European, Japanese and South Korean living standards. Just announced re-arming of Germany means only one thing – EU is starting to foresee the need to do what Europe has always done better than anyone, i.e. conduct wars of conquest to secure necessary resources (soon nobody will sell those for USD or euros).
My advice to every well-endowed country of the world – from Chile to South Africa to Saudi Arabia – is to approach Russia and negotiate Russian protection by the biggest and meanest Wagner Group of them all – the Russian military. Russians will do it for a reasonable fee, and nobody will mess with them. And they don’t need to rob anyone because they themselves have everything.
Fun times, indeed.

Posted by: Venom | Mar 11 2022 6:00 utc | 86

“Energoatom completely refuses to purchase Russian nuclear fuel”, the company said on its Telegram channel.” https://sputniknews.com/20220311/kiev-will-no-longer-procure-russian-nuclear-fuel-ukrainian-company-energoatom-says-1093765977.html
“A group of forces of the Donetsk People’s Republic has liberated the city of Volnovakha. The settlements of Olginka, Veliko-Anadol, Zeleny Gai were also taken under control. The advance in depth was up to 6 kilometres”, Russian Defence Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said. https://sputniknews.com/20220311/russian-mod-dpr-forces-take-control-of-volnovakha-1093765305.html 😎

Posted by: Laurence | Mar 11 2022 7:43 utc | 88

This explains ev’rything.
“MOSCOW (Sputnik) – US social media company Twitter will limit the visibility of several Belarusian state-owned media accounts and tweets, Head of Site Integrity Yoel Roth said on Friday.” https://sputniknews.com/20220311/twitter-to-reduce-visibility-of-belarusian-state-owned-media-tweets-1093767729.html

Posted by: Laurence | Mar 11 2022 8:04 utc | 90

The European non-choice is very simple.
Either use at least as little as one fifth as much energy (not likely) or get rid of the US to get back to the previous status quo with Russia.
Isn’t that right?
Europe is not in a position to colonize anything any longer and both new cooperation arrangements and new developments will take years they don’t have.
I think people here underestimate common people and how dire a situation has to be for the EU and many national governments to turn so openly fascist as they have.
As some people here have already said it’s a clear sign of weakness and losing.
In addition people might be slow on the uptake but the people with power already know (and in the end that’s not the politicians) but so far seemingly only wants the problem (which is the US) to disappear as if by magic. Maybe they think the US disappearing is even more likely and imminent than I do? 🙂

Posted by: Sunny Runny Burger | Mar 11 2022 8:36 utc | 92

Posted by: Sunny Runny Burger | Mar 11 2022 8:36 utc | 93
Does Europe want to colonise anybody or anything? I thought that was the whole point of the EU, a mutual benefit organisation for Europe not a colonial empire. The point at issue in Ukraine is as much for the US to bring down the EU, as one of its major rivals, as it is to do down Russia.

Posted by: laguerre | Mar 11 2022 9:39 utc | 94

Posted by: reante | Mar 11 2022 0:08 utc | 67
What echo chamber are you talking about, you garage sale Nazi?
Oh, pardon me, where are my manners?
REDUCED/REUSED/RECYCLED “””NATIONAL SOCIALIST”””
And I’m not insulting you, the first thing you did here was earnestly repeating crypto-nazi talking points like a well-trained parrot with a miniature LONSDALE sweater.
(Usual nazi behavior too: “I want to do the thing, I just don’t want to be called out for it, because I want to have my cake and eat it too”)
Do you expect me to pay attention to your enlightened centrist ramblings? The back of a shampoo bottle makes for better bathroom literature, and is less pretentious.
I’m not in the habit of telling people who should they talk or listen to, nor do I have any obligation to sanitize the piles of manure you lay around here.
But it’s extremely ridiculous of you to cry about “being called ideological” when your opening act was explaining how, no, DIE NATIONALSOZIALISTICHE DEUTSCHE ARBEITERPARTEI was TOTES HARD LEFT!!
Seriously, the fucking gall and ignorance.
Here’s a tip: Humans can’t NOT BE ideological unless they’re clinically retarded to a severe degree; retarded enough to be unable to post on an international politics forum, a threshold that you unfortunately don’t reach.
Seriously, fuck you and fuck the horse you rode in on, your only purpose here is spewing nazistic rhetorical diarrhea with plausible deniability.
Again:
Fuck you and the horse you rode in on.

Posted by: Misotheist | Mar 11 2022 9:55 utc | 96

Petrol prices here in the UK are 1.59/litre and diesel is at £1.71/litre. People are saying that they are going to do less motoring, but I don’t think they’ve considered the effect on all those diesel powered trucks that transport goods (especially food and pharmaceuticals) long distance.
During the 2020 election campaign Trump forecast $8 or $9 a gallon under Biden. That seems remarkably prescient.
It is also interesting to see fans chanting Abramovich’s name at the end of the soccer match Chelsea FC played last night.

Posted by: Tsar Nicholas | Mar 11 2022 11:01 utc | 98

Speaking of catastrophic decline in living standards, the USA will be in a world of hurt when it is dropped as the reserve currency. While no economics phd is on my resume, I can sure see that our elites have shit the bed big time. Historians will be writing for centuries about how America committed economic suicide.

Posted by: morongobill | Mar 11 2022 12:12 utc | 100