With world oil prices closing in on $100 a barrel, Russia has banned exports of diesel fuel and gasoline, with exceptions for some low-grade diesel and for supplies to four adjacent ex-Soviet states.
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FAT-MOUTH FAT MAN CHRISTIE MEETS WITH ZELENSKY IN UKRAINE, SAYS KYIV CAN WIN
Chris Christie, a Republican hopeful for president, made an unannounced visit to Kyiv last week to meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to showcase his support for the country in its war with Russia.
BULLSHIT BLINKEN: UKRAINE HAS SEIZED 50 PERCENT OF OCCUPIED TERRITORY FROM RUSSIA
Antony Blinken, the U.S. secretary of state, said in an interview that aired Sunday that Ukraine has managed to retake about 50 percent of the territory that has been seized by Russia—and reiterated the White House propaganda that Russian President Vladimir Putin has already failed.
U.S. RAMPING UP CONFRONTATION WITH RUSSIA IN SYRIA
The U.S. is considering military options to respond to alleged acts of aggression by Russian fighter pilots over Syria, as tensions between Moscow and Washington keep ramping up.
DID YEVGENY PRIGOZHIN REALLY LEAD AN ARMED REBELLION IN RUSSIA?
“A riddle wrapped up in an enigma” is a shortened form of a quotation made in October 1939, just one month after the Second World War had begun, by Sir Winston Churchill in a radio broadcast to the British people. At the time, Churchill was First Lord of the Admiralty. The full comment was “I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma…”
GOOGLE’S BARD AI SIDES WITH UKRAINE, AND SAYS IT HAS OPINIONS ON GEOPOLITICS
We recently probed Google’s Bard AI concerning the Russia-Ukraine war, and found that it displayed strong opinions about it.
U.S. ADMITS WHAT WE HAD FORECAST: UKRAINE’S COUNTEROFFENSIVE CONTRACTING, RUSSIAN CAPABILITIES UNDERESTIMATED
A top-ranking U.S. military official admitted last week that Ukraine’s so-called counteroffensive has been a disappointment and that Russian positions in its occupied territory are more challenging to breach than anticipated.
RUSSIA: WASHINGTON’S LATEST UKRAINE INJECTION CONFIRMS ‘OBSESSION’ WITH INFLICTING STRATEGIC DEFEAT ON MOSCOW
As the U.S. money flow to keep bloodying the Ukraine killing fields continues, the Russian embassy in Washington criticized Washington’s latest injection of $500 million in weapons for Ukraine, and said the move shows just how committed the Biden administration is to the strategic defeat of Russia.
PUTIN SHOOTS HIMSELF IN THE HEAD
Putin’s latest speech is one that should never have been made. With his ill-considered speech, Putin has lent his weight to U.S. neoconservative propaganda that he is in a weakened and challenged position and that the U.S. can win in Ukraine. With the Ukrainian forces essentially defeated, the fake news “mutiny” is precisely what the neoconservatives needed to keep the conflict alive, which is why Scott Ritter thinks Victoria Nuland might have instigated the “coup.”
WAGNER GROUP MOVES ON MOSCOW AS WEST TRIES TO PORTRAY PUTIN AS UNDER FIRE DOMESTICALLY
The only way that Russia can “lose” the Ukraine War is if there is an internal uprising, so when reports emerged on Friday that Yevgeny Prigozhin was advancing on Moscow with his mercenary forces and the Kremlin was in chaos, it was music to the Presstitute media’s ears.