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09:44

Anthony Blinken calls on Russia to 'let the grain out of Ukraine'

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken addressed his Russian counterpart at closed-door G20 talks in Bali, demanding that Moscow allow grain shipments from war-torn Ukraine, official says western.

“To our Russian colleagues: Ukraine is not your country. His grain is not your grain. Why are you blocking ports? You should let the grain out,” Blinken told Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, whom he declined to meet separately, according to a Western official present.

NOTE: RUSSIAN ISN'T STOPPING UKRAINE GRAIN. THE UKRAINIAN GOVERNMENT HAS MINED ITS HARBOURS AND WATERS, PREVENTING THEIR OWN SHIPS TO GET OUT....

09:32

Sergei Lavrov absent during the speech of the head of Ukrainian diplomacy at the G20

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov was absent when his Ukrainian counterpart, Dmytro Kuleba, addressed G20 foreign ministers meeting in Indonesia online on Friday, diplomatic sources told AFP. The Russian minister, however, attended the morning sessions in Bali, several diplomats said on condition of anonymity.

LAVROV DOES NOT HAVE TO BE THERE TO HEAR "NUMBER 21" (NOTE: UKRAINE IS NOT A MEMBER OF THE G20) AT THE G20. ACCORDING TO GUS INFORMATION DMYTRO KUBELA RANT WAS FULL OF LIES....

09:07

At G20, Russia heard 'a chorus' of calls for an end to the war in Ukraine, as asserted by Blinken....

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken pointed out on Friday that Russia had heard a "chorus" of calls to end the war in Ukraine thanks to Sergei Lavrov's participation in the meeting:

What we have already heard today is a strong chorus from around the world, not just the United States, for (…) the aggression to stop.

RUSSIA CAN STOP THIS WAR AS SOON AS ZELENSKYYY-YYY SIGNS A DEAL WHICH GUARANTEES THE RUSSIAN STATED SIMPLE GOALS.

09:01

Russia 'won't run' after US for G20 meeting

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Friday that he "will not run" to Washington for talks after his US counterpart, Antony Blinken, refused to meet him on the sidelines of a meeting of the G20. "It's not us who have abandoned contact, it's the United States," Lavrov told reporters in Bali, where the heads of diplomacy meeting is being held.

The United States has tried to isolate Russia on the international scene and Mr Blinken's entourage has explained that there is no need to have discussions with the Russian minister as long as Moscow continues its offensive in Ukraine. While commending the neutral attitude of the host country, Indonesia, Sergei Lavrov denounced the approach of Western countries that are members of the group of the world's 20 largest economies:

Our Western partners sought to avoid talking about global economic issues. As soon as they spoke, they almost immediately launched into a frenzied criticism of Russia on the situation in Ukraine, calling us aggressors.

BLINKEN IS A HYPOCRITICAL IDIOT AND PRIMA-DONA AS WELL.... Russia was pushed into this war.....

08:46

Germany braces for potential gas shortage

The German government is on the alert as a crucial deadline approaches: the total shutdown, from Monday, of the Nord Stream gas pipeline, due to routine maintenance. The pause should last ten days, but Germany fears that Russia will stop for good deliveries passing through this pipeline which provides an essential part of its supply.

"No scenario can be ruled out," Economy Minister Robert Habeck warned that Moscow is using the "weapon of gas" against Europe in an attempt to undermine support for Ukraine. Fearing the gas shortage, the country, from municipalities to large companies, is preparing for all restrictions.

Faced with alarmist messages, the industrial sector, communities and administrations are looking for all the means to reduce their energy consumption: hot water from the shower, office temperature and why not the lighting of traffic lights. “It is possible that we will introduce more remote working again for a limited time, as during the pandemic. But this time to save energy in the national interest, "said Carsten Knobel, the boss of the Henkel group, one of the heavyweights of the Frankfurt stock exchange, in the press.

NOTHING RUSSIAN CAN DO UNLESS CANADA RETURNS A PIECE OF EQUIPMENT....

07:39

The objective of the Russian authorities is to "create an atmosphere of fear", believes, in an interview with Le Monde, Elena Jemkova, executive director of "Memorial", a Russian human rights NGO which continues its work, despite its dissolution by the justice of the Russian Federation.

"It is our responsibility to end the war as soon as possible and settle our differences at the negotiating table, not on the battlefield," Indonesian Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi said in the presence of her Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov. The effect of war "is felt all over the world, on food, energy and budgets", she pointed out. “And, as always, poor and developing countries are the most affected.»

The United States, supported by some of its Western allies, had called for Russia to be excluded from international forums. Indonesia, which wants to maintain a position of neutrality as host country of the G20, however confirmed its invitation to the Russian foreign minister but also invited his Ukrainian counterpart, Dmytro Kuleba, who must participate online.

FAIR DIALOGUE... REMOVE THE US SANCTIONS AND EVERYTHING WILL FLOW.....

06:34

The Russian military has confirmed it is taking an operational break

Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov announced on July 7 that Russian forces in Ukraine were taking a break to "regain their combat capabilities." Mr. Konashenkov did not specify the expected duration of this operational pause, which in no way means that the fighting will stop.

In its July 8 report, the Institute for Study of War, which had announced such a pause the day before, insisted that "Russian forces continued on July 7 to carry out limited ground offensives and airstrikes, artillery and missiles". The US think tank says the Russian military "will likely continue to stick to small-scale offensive actions while it rebuilds its forces and creates the conditions for a larger offensive in the weeks or months to come." .

06:11 THE ESSENTIALS

Update on the situation at 6 a.m.

Vladimir Putin defied the West on Thursday, saying in a speech to the leaders of parliamentary groups and broadcast on television that Russia had "not yet started its operations seriously" in Ukraine. “We hear that they want to defeat us on the battlefield. What to say ? Let them try!“, said Putin. “At the same time, we do not refuse peace negotiations. But those who refuse should know that the longer [they refuse], the harder it will be for them to negotiate with us,” he added.

Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov announced on July 7 that Russian forces in Ukraine were taking a break to "regain their combat capabilities." Mr. Konachenkov did not specify the expected duration of this operational pause, which in no way signifies the cessation of fighting.

On the ground, the time was not for negotiations on Thursday but for attacks on towns still in Ukrainian hands. In Kramatorsk, Donetsk region, a shelling in the city centre killed one civilian and injured six. Ukraine denies that Russia controls 100% of Luhansk Oblast, whose governor, Serhi Haidai, accuses the Russians of forcibly conscripting and brutalising residents of the towns of Sievierodonetsk and Lyssychansk.

To the north, in the Kharkiv region, Russian shelling killed three civilians and injured five, while a limited offensive failed at the city's gates. In the south, the Russians are still bombarding the Mykolaiv region and fighting is raging around the city of Kherson, which they have occupied since the first days of the war but must face, according to kyiv, Ukrainian counter-attacks.

The Ukrainian army finally affirmed on Thursday that it had regained a foothold on Serpents' Island in the Black Sea, after having handed over its flag there a few days earlier, following the withdrawal of Russian forces from this strategic island located in front of the mouth of the Danube. Moscow claimed to have carried out a strike there in the morning, killing Ukrainian soldiers and putting the survivors to flight. Statements impossible to verify from an independent source.

In Indonesia, a meeting of G20 foreign ministers began Thursday on the island of Bali, in the presence of Russia and Ukraine's Western allies. Global food security and war-driven energy price volatility will be on the agenda. The European Union has warned that it refuses to allow Russia to use this G20 as "a platform for its propaganda" on the conflict in Ukraine.

SO IT SHOULD BE A US PROPAGANDA PLATFORM...? THE UKRAINIANS ALSO KILLED A FEW PEOPLE IN THE DONBASS REGION....

06:05

Hello and welcome to this direct dedicated to the war in Ukraine

FROM LE MONDE

https://www.lemonde.fr/international/live/2022/07/08/guerre-en-ukraine-l-armee-russe-a-confirme-qu-elle-faisait-une-pause-operationnelle_6133895_3210.html

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FROM CHRIS HEDGES

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), and the arms industry that depends on it for billions in profits, has become the most aggressive and dangerous military alliance on the planet. Created in 1949 to thwart Soviet expansion into Eastern and Central Europe, it has evolved into a global war machine in Europe, the Middle East, Latin America, Africa and Asia. 

NATO expanded its footprint, violating promises to Moscow, once the Cold War ended, to incorporate 14 countries in Eastern and Central Europe into the alliance. It will soon add Finland and Sweden. It bombed Bosnia, Serbia and Kosovo. It launched wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria and Libya, resulting in close to a million deaths and some 38 million people driven from their homes. It is building a military footprint in Africa and Asia. It invited Australia, Japan, New Zealand and South Korea, the so-called “Asia Pacific Four,” to its recent summit in Madrid at the end of June. It has expanded its reach into the Southern Hemisphere, signing a military training partnership agreement with Colombia, in December 2021. It has backed Turkey, with NATO’s second largest military, which has illegally invaded and occupied parts of Syria as well as Iraq. Turkish-backed militias are engaged in the ethnic cleansing of Syrian Kurds and other inhabitants of north and east Syria. The Turkish military has been accused of war crimes – including multiple airstrikes against a refugee camp andchemical weapons use – in northern Iraq. In exchange for President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s permission for Finland and Sweden to join the alliance, the two Nordic countries have agreed to expand their domestic terror laws making it easier to crack down on Kurdish and other activists, lift their restrictions on selling arms to Turkey and deny support to the Kurdish-led movement for democratic autonomy in Syria.

It is quite a record for a military alliance that with the collapse of the Soviet Union was rendered obsolete and should have been dismantled. NATO and the militarists had no intention of embracing the “peace dividend,” fostering a world based on diplomacy, a respect of spheres of influence and mutual cooperation. It was determined to stay in business. Its business is war. That meant expanding its war machine far beyond the border of Europe and engaging in ceaseless antagonism toward China and Russia. 

NATO sees the future, as detailed in its “NATO 2030: Unified for a New Era,” as a battle for hegemony with rival states, especially China, and calls for the preparation of prolonged global conflict.

“China has an increasingly global strategic agenda, supported by its economic and military heft,” the NATO 2030 initiative warned. “It has proven its willingness to use force against its neighbors, as well as economic coercion and intimidatory diplomacy well beyond the Indo-Pacific region. Over the coming decade, China will likely also challenge NATO’s ability to build collective resilience, safeguard critical infrastructure, address new and emerging technologies such as 5G and protect sensitive sectors of the economy including supply chains. Longer term, China is increasingly likely to project military power globally, including potentially in the Euro-Atlantic area.”

The alliance has spurned the Cold War strategy that made sure Washington was closer to Moscow and Beijing than Moscow and Beijing were to each other. U.S. and NATO antagonism have turned Russia and China into close allies. Russia, rich in natural resources, including energy, minerals and grains, and China, a manufacturing and technological behemoth, are a potent combination. NATO no longer distinguishes between the two, announcing in its most recent mission statement that the “deepening strategic partnership” between Russian and China has resulted in “mutually reinforcing attempts to undercut the rules-based international order that run counter to our values and interests.” 

On July 6, Christopher Wray, director of the FBI, and Ken McCallum, director general of Britain’s MI5, held a joint news conference in London to announce that China was the “biggest long-term threat to our economic and national security.” They accused China, like Russia, of interfering in U.S. and U.K. elections. Wray warned the business leaders they addressed that the Chinese government was “set on stealing your technology, whatever it is that makes your industry tick, and using it to undercut your business and dominate your market.”

This inflammatory rhetoric presages an ominous future.

One cannot talk about war without talking about markets. The political and social turmoil in the U.S., coupled with its diminishing economic power, has led it to embrace NATO and its war machine as the antidote to its decline.

Washington and its European allies are terrified of China’s trillion-dollar Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) meant to connect an economic bloc of roughly 70 nations outside U.S. control. The initiative includes the construction of rail lines, roads and gas pipelines that will be integrated with Russia. Beijing is expected to commit $1.3 trillion to the BRI by 2027. China, which is on track to become the world’s largest economy within a decade, has organized the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership, the world’s largest trade pact of 15 East Asian and Pacific nations representing 30 percent of global trade. It already accounts for 28.7 percent of the Global Manufacturing Output, nearly double the 16.8 percent of the U.S. 

China’s rate of growth last year was an impressive  8.1 percent, although slowing to around 5 percent this year.  By contrast, the U.S.’s growth rate in 2021 was 5.7 percent — its highest since 1984 — but is predicted to fall below 1 percent this year, by the New York Federal Reserve.

If China, Russia, Iran, India and other nations free themselves from the tyranny of the U.S. dollar as the world’s reserve currency and the international Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT), a messaging network financial institutions use to send and receive information such as money transfer instructions, it will trigger a dramatic decline in the value of the dollar and a financial collapse in the U.S. The huge military expenditures, which have driven the U.S. debt to $30 trillion, $ 6 trillion more than the U.S.’s entire GDP, will become untenable. Servicing this debt costs $300 billion a year. We spent more on the military in 2021, $ 801 billion which amounted to 38 percent of total world expenditure on the military, than the next nine countries, including China and Russia, combined. The loss of the dollar as the world’s reserve currency will force the U.S. to slash spending, shutter many of its 800 military bases overseas and cope with the inevitable social and political upheavals triggered by economic collapse. It is darkly ironic that NATO has accelerated this possibility.

Russia, in the eyes of NATO and U.S. strategists, is the appetizer. Its military, NATO hopes, will get bogged down and degraded in Ukraine. Sanctions and diplomatic isolation, the plan goes, will thrust Vladimir Putin from power. A client regime that will do U.S. bidding will be installed in Moscow.

NATO has provided more than $8 billion in military aid to Ukraine, while the US has committed nearly $54 billion in military and humanitarian assistance to the country.

China, however, is the main course. Unable to compete economically, the U.S. and NATO have turned to the blunt instrument of war to cripple their global competitor. 

The provocation of China replicates the NATO baiting of Russia.

NATO expansion and the 2014 US-backed coup in Kyiv led Russia to first occupy Crimea, in eastern Ukraine, with its large ethnic Russian population, and then to invade all of Ukraine to thwart the country’s efforts to join NATO. 

The same dance of death is being played with China over Taiwan, which China considers part of Chinese territory, and with NATO expansion in the Asia Pacific. China flies warplanes into Taiwan’s air defense zone and the U.S. sends naval shipsthrough the Taiwan Strait which connects the South and East China seas. Secretary of State Antony Blinken in May called China the most serious long-term challenge to the international order, citing its claims to Taiwan and efforts to dominate the South China Sea. Taiwan’s president, in a Zelensky-like publicity stunt, recently posed with an anti-tank rocket launcher in a government handout photo.

The conflict in Ukraine has been a bonanza for the arms industry, which, given the humiliating withdrawal from Afghanistan, needed a new conflict. Lockheed Martin’s stock prices are up 12 percent. Northrop Grumman is up 20 percent. The war is being used by NATO to increase its military presence in Eastern and Central Europe. The U.S. is building a permanent military base in Poland. The 40,000-strong NATO reaction force is being expanded to 300,000 troops. Billions of dollars in weapons are pouring into the region.

The conflict with Russia, however, is already backfiring. The ruble has soared to a seven-year high against the dollar. Europe is barreling towards a recession because of rising oil and gas prices and the fear that Russia could terminate supplies completely. The loss of Russian wheat, fertilizer, gas and oil, due to Western sanctions, is creating havoc in world markets and a humanitarian crisis in Africa and the Middle East. Soaring food and energy prices, along with shortages and crippling inflation, bring with them not only deprivation and hunger, but social upheaval and political instability. The climate emergency, the real existential threat, is being ignored to appease the gods of war.

The war makers are frighteningly cavalier about the threat of nuclear war. Putin warned NATO countries that they “will face consequences greater than any you have faced in history” if they intervened directly in Ukraine and ordered Russian nuclear forces to be put on heightened alert status. The proximity to Russia of U.S. nuclear weapons based in Belgium, Germany, Italy, Netherlands and Turkey mean that any nuclear conflict would obliterate much of Europe. Russia and the United States control about 90 percent of the world’s nuclear warheads, with around 4,000 warheads each in their military stockpiles, according to the Federation of American Scientists.

President Joe Biden warned that the use of nuclear weapons in Ukraine would be “completely unacceptable” and “entail severe consequences,” without spelling out what those consequences would be. This is what U.S. strategists refer to as “deliberate ambiguity.” 

The U.S. military, following its fiascos in the Middle East, has shifted its focus from fighting terrorism and asymmetrical warfare to confronting China and Russia. President Barack Obama’s national-security team in 2016 carried out a war game in which Russia invaded a NATO country in the Baltics and used a low-yield tactical nuclear weapon against NATO forces. Obama officials were split about how to respond. 

“The National Security Council’s so-called Principals Committee—including Cabinet officers and members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff—decided that the United States had no choice but to retaliate with nuclear weapons,” Eric Schlosser writes in The Atlantic. “Any other type of response, the committee argued, would show a lack of resolve, damage American credibility, and weaken the NATO alliance. Choosing a suitable nuclear target proved difficult, however. Hitting Russia’s invading force would kill innocent civilians in a NATO country. Striking targets inside Russia might escalate the conflict to an all-out nuclear war. In the end, the NSC Principals Committee recommended a nuclear attack on Belarus—a nation that had played no role whatsoever in the invasion of the NATO ally but had the misfortune of being a Russian ally.” 

The Biden administration has formed a Tiger Team of national security officials to run war games on what to do if Russia uses a nuclear weapon, according to The New York Times. The threat of nuclear war is minimized with discussions of “tactical nuclear weapons,” as if less powerful nuclear explosions are somehow more acceptable and won’t lead to the use of bigger bombs. 

At no time, including the Cuban missile crisis, have we stood closer to the precipice of nuclear war. 

“A simulation devised by experts at Princeton University starts with Moscow firing a nuclear warning shot; NATO responds with a small strike, and the ensuing war yieldsmore than 90 million casualties in its first few hours,” The New York Times reported.

The longer the war in Ukraine continues — and the U.S. and NATO seem determined to funnel billions of dollars of weapons into the conflict for months if not years — the more the unthinkable becomes thinkable. Flirting with Armageddon to profit the arms industry and carry out the futile quest to reclaim U.S. global hegemony is at best extremely reckless and at worst genocidal.

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NATO IS A US EMPIRE MILITARY MACHINE DESIGNED TO CONQUER THE WORLD — NOT TO PROTECT IT. IT HAS NO MORALS AND HUMANS OF GOOD WILL NEED TO DENOUNCE IT AND STOP IT.

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BY SCOTT RITTER

The secretary general of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), Jens Stoltenberg, recently announced the US-led military bloc’s goal of expanding its so-called ‘Response Force’ from its current strength of 40,000 to a force of more than 300,000 troops. “We will enhance our battlegroups in the eastern part of the Alliance up to brigade-levels,”Stoltenberg declared. “We will transform the NATO Response Force and increase the number of our high readiness forces to well over 300,000.”

The announcement, made at the end of NATO’s annual summit, held in Madrid, Spain, apparently took several defense officials from the NATO membership by surprise, with one such official calling Stoltenberg’s figures “number magic.” Stoltenberg appeared to be working from a concept that had been developed within NATO headquarters based upon assumptions made by his staffers, as opposed to anything resembling coordinated policy among the defense organizations of the 30 nations that make up the bloc.

Confusion is the name of the game at NATO these days, with the alliance still reeling from last year’s Afghan debacle and unable to adequately disguise the impotence shown in the face of Russia’s ongoing military operation in Ukraine. The bloc is but a shadow of its former self, a pathetic collection of under-funded military organizations more suited for the parade ground than the battlefield. No military organization more represents this colossal collapse in credibility and capability than the British Army.

Even before the current Ukraine crisis kicked off, the British military served more as an object of derision than a template of professionalism. Take, by way of example, the visit of UK Defense Secretary Ben Wallace to Zagreb, Croatia in early February 2022. Croatian President Zoran Milanovic accused the British of trying to incite Ukraine into a war with Russia, as opposed to trying to address Russia’s concerns over the existing European security framework. Wallace flew to Zagreb for consultations, only to be rebuked by Milanovic, who refused to meet with him, noting that he only met with the defense ministers of superpowers, adding that “the UK has left the EU, and this gives it less importance.”

But London keeps putting a brave face on a sorry reality. Take, for example, the offer of written security assurances to Sweden and Finland made by British Prime Minister Boris Johnson. These pledges were designed to bolster the resolve of the two Nordic nations as they considered their applications to join NATO. 

But there was no substance to the British offer, if for no other reason than the British had nothing in the way of viable military capability to offer either the Swedes or the Finns. Even as Johnson proffered the proverbial hand of assistance to his newfound Nordic allies, the UK Ministry of Defense was wrestling with planned force reductions that would see the British Army cut from its current “established strength” of 82,000 to 72,500 by 2025 (the actual strength of the British Army is around 76,500, reflecting ongoing difficulties in recruitment and retention.) 

Even these numbers are misleading – the British Army is only capable of generating one fully combat-ready maneuver brigade (3,500 to 4,000 men with all the necessary equipment and support). Given the reality that the UK is already on the hook for a reinforced battalion-sized “battlegroup” that is to be deployed to Estonia as part of NATO’s so-called enhanced Forward Presence (eFP) posture (joining three other similarly-sized “battlegroups” fielded by the US in Poland, Germany in Lithuania, and Canada in Latvia), it is questionable whether the British could even accomplish this limited task.  

Last month’s deployment to Estonia of a battlegroup comprised of the 2 Rifles infantry regiment underscores the pathos that defines real British military capability. The 2 Rifles Battlegroup includes the three infantry companies and one fire support company integral to the unit, along with supporting artillery, engineering, logistic, and medical elements. France and Denmark provide a company-sized unit to the British-led battlegroup on an alternating basis. Altogether, the British battlegroup comprises some 1,600 soldiers, and is fully integrated within the Estonian 2nd Infantry Brigade.

Given what we now know about the reality of modern warfare, courtesy of the ongoing Russian operation in Ukraine, the British battlegroup would have a life expectancy on an actual European battlefield of less than a week. So, too, would its allies in the Estonian 2nd Infantry Brigade. First and foremost, the units lack any sustainability, both in terms of personnel and equipment losses that could be anticipated if subjected to combat, or the basic logistical support necessary to shoot, move, or communicate on the modern battlefield. Artillery is the king of battle, and the British and Estonians are lacking when it comes to generating anywhere near enough tubes to counter the overwhelming fire support expected to be generated by any hostile Russian force.

Stoltenberg’s hypothetical 300,000-strong Response Force envisions the existing battlegroups to be expanded to brigade-sized formations, ironically tasking the British to generate more combat power at a time when it is actively seeking to reduce its overall manpower levels. While the British may be able to scrape enough substance from the bottom of the barrel, so to speak, to accomplish this projected reinforcement, there would literally be nothing left to back up Boris Johnson’s bold offer of substantive military assistance to Sweden and Finland, leaving the British prime minister looking more like the captain of the Titanic after it hit the iceberg, issuing directives and acting as if his words had any impact, all while his ship is sinking.

The statements, views and opinions expressed in this column are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of RT.

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