‘United Nations’ – or a talking shop bowing to US pressure?
There’s no escaping from the war drums, be they from the Ukraine, be they from our own country, from the EU or the west in general. I can only bear to scan the compilation of headlines of this morning’s papers in the usual place (link).
To get the day off to a really bad start, Mr ‘e is splashed all over the MSM with his virtual speech for the UN Security Council. I tried to watch that session last night, but trust me: this was worse than watching our peacocks in the HoC, so I gave up.
Let me only remark that the Metro’s headline “You been on the vodka?” as shown on yon compilation of headlines simply demonstrates that their hacks clearly didn’t grasp that the speeches were simultaneously translated – and that it was more likely that the translator for the Russian ambassador had been ‘on the sauce’. But hey, anything is fine if it displays the proper anti-Russian attitude.
In his email newsletter the Speccie wrote yesterday evening that the speech was given in ‘moral fury’, that Mr ‘e, demanding that the UN should kick Russia off the permanent UN Council, asked what the UN was good for if they didn’t. Reuters has a short report of his speech (link). While this is impossible without destroying the UN as such, the USA is at least making some gestures, e.g. asking to suspend Russia from the UN’s ‘Human Rights Body’ (link).
It seems to escape the USA and our own MSM that this ‘Human Rights Body’ hasn’t precisely shone in supporting human rights, e.g. women’s rights in strict muslim countries, nor were there such proposals heard when the USA destroyed the town of Falluja. Was that too long ago and thus of no interest now, or are the lives of melanin-enhanced people less valuable as those of Europeans like the Ukrainians? That’s something many in non-western media have already remarked upon.
One other organisation Russia cannot be kicked out of is the OSCE, as has also been proposed (link). Meanwhile the mighty EU is going to set up an independent investigation into the Bucha massacre, announced by Ms vdL two days ago – on twitter, so it’s official:
“BRUSSELS, April 4. /TASS/. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on Monday said the EU plans to send investigators to Bucha who will team up with Ukrainian prosecutors, Europol and Eurojust. “The EU is ready to send Joint Investigation Teams to document war crimes in coordination with the Ukrainian Prosecutor General,” she said on Twitter. “Europol and Eurojust will support.” (link)
That investigation will be truly ‘independent’, won’t it, thanks to Ukrainian ‘prosecutors’ investigating themselves. I’ll round up this unsavoury stack of news by pointing out that our propaganda institutions, the MSM, are getting help to maintain their narrative even from allegedly impartial sources like Reuters.
Here’s how a factual report, that India condemned the Bucha massacre, is gently manipulated by the headline “India condemns killings in Ukraine’s Bucha in apparent hardening of stance” (link). Similarly, Bloomberg, reporting on China’s stance, writes that China “expressed dismay at the killing of unarmed civilians in Bucha, while calling on all sides to refrain judgment until a probe establishes who is responsible.”(link), sniffily adding that
“Still, Zhang [China’s UN ambassador] stopped short of condemning Russian President Vladimir Putin for the violence, saying that “circumstances and specific causes of the incident should be verified and established” and “all sides should exercise restraint and avoid unfounded accusations.” (link)
Has it occurred to any of those reporters that condemning the massacre doesn’t also mean condemning Russia? That condemnation could as well apply to the Ukraine. I find it upsetting that the west has apparently abandoned proper judicial procedure, of hearing both sides before making a judgement. Why it is that all those female ‘leaders’ are displaying a worrying attitude of militancy while disregarding judicial procedure!
Weren’t wimmin as leaders supposed to be more gentle than men? There’s not just Ms vdL with her ‘independent inquiry’, there’s the British UN ambassador who declined the Russian demands for an urgent UN Security Council meeting and there’s our own Miz Truss who seems to think that her job is to be even more belligerent than the MoD minister Ben Wallace. That couldn’t possibly have something to do with the fact that Mr Wallace has ousted her from the top of the Tory Party members’ popularity poll earlier this week, of course not!
Still, inflation or not, cost-of-living ‘squeeze’ or not, “we” are now going to work on producing proper modern armaments, as The Times reports:
“Britain, the US and Australia will work together on the development of hypersonic weapons and the technology to shoot them down after Russia claimed to have tested the weapons in Ukraine. The landmark Aukus security pact will be expanded to include co-operation on the advanced high speed weapons, and the sharing of electronic warfare and cyber capabilities.” (link, paywalled)
Why would we need to do that if Russia has only ‘claimed’ to have such missiles? Or might this announcement perhaps have something to do with this warning, reported by RT yesterday:
“US warns of Chinese nuclear breakthrough – If strategic deterrence fails, no other defensive plan will work, US Strategic Command has allegedly warned” (link)
Oh dear! So we’re off to a new arms race. Why am I reminded of the history leading up to the fall of the Soviet Union, caused by their involvement in Afghanistan, coupled with the arms race by the West. Is the West now trying to repeat this history, hoping to bleed Russia dry with a continuing war in the Ukraine, where NATO will supply the arms, just as the CIA supplied arms to the Taliban and other Afghanistan insurgents, aiming for ‘regime change’ in Russia?
At that time the Iron Curtain was still in place. Now there’s a new Iron Curtain coming down, not only with more sanctions than ever – sanctions from which the USA is always exempting herself – but with the simultaneous expulsion of Russian diplomats from western countries and the blocking of Russian news sources. But then again – who needs to hear what Russia has to say when “we” have made it clear that we won’t believe them anyway, having condemned Russia already, for everything.
I leave you with a recommendation for an important text which I urge you to read. It is long but well worth the effort. The author is Swiss, his credentials are impressive. You can find them at the end of his essay. He asks questions of the west which are more than just inconvenient. Do read the whole thing!
In fact we are in need of regime change, but not in Russia or indeed the European Union as the latter has past the point of no return already. The regime change that needs to occur is right here in this in this country not elsewhere. We have no influence over what happens within the EU, the USA or even China, but we do right in Great Britain, and that national wake up call needs to happen at the local elections in May when this ruddy awful neo Conservative government which is more like a war mongering New Green Party needs to be on the receiving end of one almighty electoral hammer blow. Boris Johnson is not listening, and hasn’t listened since the 1st February 2020 so has to be sent a very strong message that we are not going to tolerate his behaviour on the international stage any longer trying to stir up things with Russia and possibly provoking a much wider European or even a world conflict which will only end one way, the complete annihilation of the human race and all other living beings. What part of it does Johnson the Imbecile not understand. We didn’t elect him in December 2019 to provoke a war with Russia or enter a new international arms race, but we did elect him to gain a fully 100% withdrawal from the European Union, a clamp down on illegal immigration and an increased standard of living and where Britain’s national interest would be put above the interest of others for a change. Instead what we have got is something rather different, and if this is Johnson’s idea of levelling up, I’m not interested and what to get off at the next bus stop namely the May elections. Unfortunately there are no elections in my part of Kent, but if there were neither HE, nor the Labour Party, Liberal Democrats or Green Party would get my vote ever again. If ever there was a time for a new right of centre political party to be formed, this time is most definitely it. I’m done with Johnson and his brand of Conservatism, and want out, and want out right now.
Is it possible that there is another basic unbreakable thread however hidden. connecting all the right wing parties..Is there no individual able to concieve of a way to unite these little leaders, without destroying their cause. ( Or is that their apparent purpose like ukip ) Nige built the immigration thread.There’s a thousand alternatives.
From the article that Viv suggests that we read in her post: ‘The Military Situation In The Ukraine.’
Quote:
“Thus, we recognize that Russia is a democracy since we consider that the Russian people are responsible for the war. If this is not the case, then why do we seek to punish a whole population for the fault of one? Let us remember that collective punishment is forbidden by the Geneva Conventions.”
This is ironic because in the supposed democratic Western nations, the one thing that we certainly don’t have anymore is democracy.
A three minute video:
‘Truth Bombs About Klaus Schwab, World Economic Forum
“A South Australian senator lifted the curtain on the World Economic Forum’s Great Reset agenda during a recent parliament meeting, exposing it as a subversive communist ploy.”‘
https://rumble.com/vz7flp-truth-bombs-about-klaus-schwab-world-economic-forum.html
It seems that Russia is now more democratic than Britain, Europe, New Zealand, Australia or the United States.
Russia more democratic than – – – –
Quite agree flyer. I said myself, perhaps a week ago, I’d emigrate to Russia if I could.
Oh, and apparently Putin is even Christian – Russian Orthodox of course.
Now I’ve read other comments to today’s Betrayal, I’d like to remind folks of something else I decided a while back:-
During the Cold War when U.S.A. faced off U.S.S.R., U.S.A. was economically stronger than Russia.
Since then U.S. economic strength has lessened and Russian has grown stronger.
America can not accept that. America has to be THE World Power.
PB I suggest you watch this , very entertaining and for for various views, and more insight, into what Putin is: https://off-guardian.org/2022/04/02/debate-russia-and-the-great-reset-resistance-or-complicity/
Remember those white-shrouded covid ‘dead’ fidgeting under their sheets in India; elsewhere a guy, amongst an array of black bagged ‘corpses’, who sat up for a smoke. Not to mention the car bomb in Syria where the street was populated after the explosion was set off, with ‘dead and injured’ folk, suitably bloody and ragged, who ran up and lay down whilst ‘medics’ arrived to treat them. And the film set covid wards heaving with patients and frantic medics; the crisis actors ‘on drips’ waving their scripts?
Now we have in Bucha, a roadside corpse in a bin bag, on hearing an approaching vehicle, perhaps too close for comfort, repositioning an arm for safety as the vehicle swept by. And the World’s media lapping it up. You couldn’t make it up. Actually, on second thoughts, that’s exactly what they do now; everywhere, any topic, all the time.
If they were to kick out Russia from the UN, surely they would have to kick out China for its human rights abuses, and the Saudis for their war on Yemen, and Mr ‘E himself for his recent years of atrocities on the Donbas peoples.
Don’t condemn your whole sex, Viv, for the actions of a few. There are gentle men and ruthless women. It’s the political class that needs condemning; the right sort of people getting into power is the rare exception not the rule, regardless of sex.
The former head of the DGSE (French security service) has said much the same as Jacque Baud.
Thanks for the piece by Jacques Baud; essential reading. Utterly absorbing and revealing. Confirms a lot of what Scott Ritter said. Whichever way you look these days, on whatever topic, conspiracy theories and misinformation turn out to be the truth. Brilliant steer; thanks again.
PO’S- Agreed. Just ordered ”Poutine, maître du jeu ?: La Russie en 50 questions” Paperback – Big Book, 16 Mar. 2022
232 pages will give my gums a good workout. Finding time to read is the trickiest part.
I remember Mark Steyn saying that Poutine (a corruption of ‘pudding’) was Quebec’s national dish, but they felt they had to rename it Cheesy Chips in Gravy or some such banality. And a Paris restaurant Maison de la Poutine, whose specialty it was, was attacked and closed, because the knee-jerk low lifes thought he lived there. Hilarious and tragic, both.
On another note, all this has been going on during a so-called “pandemic” . Clearly covid steered clear of a war zone!
I have just finished reading the “important text” in your final paragraph and my gob is smacked. Have saved to share as well as your narrative Viv.
The obsession with confronting and diminishing Russia has been US policy for decades and did not change with the fall of the Soviet Union. This was a mistake and a lost opportunity, as Solzhenitsyn warned in 2006:
““The Communist dictatorship cried out for a sure and immediate resistance. However I on multiple occasions also asked Western countries not to equate Soviet Communism with Russia itself and with Russian history. Alas, many camps in the West drew no such distinction. The policy of western powers toward Russia after the fall of the Soviet dictatorship changed little in terms of rigidity. That is deeply disappointing.” [Incidentally, Putin gave Solzhenitsyn a medal signifying his rehabiitation in a non-communist Russia.]
The bear has been poked continually and especially during and after the Maidan coup in 2014. Explanation is not the same as excuse, of course, as the bear has agency and so can decide how to respond to being poked, but ignoring the history of how we got here, failing to consider the interests of the bear and how to accommodate or compromise with them, suggests the US believes victory, as it defines it (capitulation, humiliation, isolation, and effective ruin of Russia) is possible and its obsession with that goal blinds it to the dangers such a goal creates.
Early on the Russain Foreign Minister warned that “A planet with no Russia means no planet”. That is, if the danger to Russia becomes existential then, in effect, they are saying you are coming with us (implying nuclear armageddon). The media’s emphasis on ‘war crimes’ increases the pressure on Germany to self-immolate by ending the purchase of gas now rather than later. Western countries look to extend scanctions and isloation even further and the collective punishement of Russians is becoming a frenzy. I do not see anyone making an asessment of when Russia may be tipped into an existential crisis. For now, Russia is adjusting as it still has markets in Pakistan, India and China, but without access to industrial goods from the West it is not just its economy that will decline but its ability to maintain a defence force and that will be a dangerous tipping point potentially.
Putin made a calamitous misjudgement in attacking Kiev and not sticking to Donbass. NATO countries are now less fearful of a Russian invasion in the sense that they now see they could resist more effectively than they previously thought and to the point that countries like Sweden and Finland, which held back form joining NATO on the grounds of not wanting to “destabilise Europe” are now considering becoming full members of NATO. Russia’s concern over encirclement will only increase.
However the war ends – if it does as wars of attrition can last years – the West seems determinded to turn Russia into another North Korea. For a country with the rich history of Russia, with so much of its music and literature part of the canon, that will be a huge tragedy. But, it may yet becone the world’s tragedy too. So far as Russia does not opt to take us with it by launching WW3 its only option is to turn to China, to purchase technology and weapons from China, and to do so by being China’s puppet in its confrontation with America.
Economic might wins wars eventually – ask Japan and Russia even as it was the West that supplied the Soviet Union during WW2 (and understood by China which is biding its time) – and so Russia will ultimatley lose in Ukraine as the West supplies ever more advanced weapons. When the US enjoys the satisfaction not just of an invader replled but of the invader’s ruin, will anyone be looking a little further down the road of an existentially challenged Russia? Will the defence against hyper-sonic missiles be ready in time? Do they believe they can stop all nuclear weapons getting through? Have they thought through what it means to turn Russia into a full ally of China (or Iran)? Of a Russia so smarting with resentment that it supplies snuclear technology to other rogue states as pay back? Do they really think they can ruin Russia with no consequences? The thinking appears to be that they can force regime change even though US history is littered with failures over any country bigger than Pananma or Grenada.
There is a risk of WW3 but not from the war in Ukraine escalating, but from afterwards if the West continues its goal of dominiating and humiliating Russia and turning it into another North Korea. After the fall of the Soviet Union, Russia wanted to come in from the cold. It was not allowed to and that mistake reverberates still. ‘No Russia on the planet means no planet’ is a real possibility.
I too come down on the admiration of Putin for trying to stay honest or realistic. As opposed to the total gap between the sales promises and delivery of American business ethics.. The action NEVER delivers. It’s just what Ameruca is. And the west stands aside in political admiration .
It’s exactly like fracking. . We read all the literature, admire the learned science.. It’s all plus. I Agree ,we’ll have frackers. So Why do I not like it.
Because of a lifetimes experience, Of British businesses by the thousands sold to foreigners. Guarantees, promises kept but only if convenient. Businesses are predatory. They MUSTgrow. So :- change the rules . Oh ” That promise was made by thelast MD ( CEO ).Silence. Political corruption. Ad nauseum . Since the war Vast businesses have been stolen, plundered, corrupted. And always the wrong gets blamed.The lists of British enterprise betrayed by politics and broken honesty is just stomach wrenching.
So no. If you believe in logic and promises , then believe and vote to frack. But in 20 years .. Remember. and think about experience.
Interesting comment. IMHO the US at the pinnacle of its unipolar world power was salivating at the prospect of carpetbagging Russia’s mineral wealth when Yeltsin was leader. When it became apparent that Putin was no Yeltsin regime change was the order of the day. Putin did extend his goodwill on one proviso – the US respect his sphere of influence just as the US expected others to respect theirs. Uncle Sam churlishly took his ball home and it seems has been plotting ever since to commit themselves to regime change in Russia. After all isn’t the war in Ukraine just a US proxy war to that end?