An assessment of the overall situation in Ukraine by Douglas Macgregor

 

Shirt interview with Lucas Leiroz, a Brazilian journalist.

Travels of Pran Puri

 The story with pictures via 

The curious case of Pran Puri, the 18th century travelling monk who was discovered and forgotten from scroll.in

Isolating Russia

 US Fails Miserably in Efforts to Isolate Russia by Conor Gallagher 

RoundTable 46: Gonzalo Lira with Brian Berletic. US-China tensions and other stuff

 

Brian is good as usual but there is some confusing stuff from Gonzalo Lira. Not great stuff.

Subhangi Swarup

A review of her book ‘Latitudes of Longing’

https://openthemagazine.com/author/shubhangi-swarup/ 

Douglas Macgregor update

 

Another about K.Viswanath (in Telugu)

 

Saravanan Natarajan describes a film og K. Viswanath

 https://www.facebook.com/saravanan.natarajan.319/posts/pfbid02PpcNabqLMJwLV2M62ALzFCkHfoL35cwTvR3JFKDDrhZ8dwnAEibnguum1Ny5HdDwl?__cft__%5B0%5D=AZWfpDXcxmgNLhjzBaiWqrACbWeDwqiQ0a3JhWP7bl71yzQ7YgL7z1loMv_5mE8FC6kBAx4500W0g-KU9aQ7dTSPTg69_-HyUa8prGcaBwRncYPp2PReCvXFHy4KhKBIOx_a1y04vmXTbfVOmDn_C9QsPQjLC0MaLsPd-myVlkvONw&__tn__=-UK-R%5D-R

K. Viswanath

Ian Welsh on Hungary’s purge of senior military officers

 What Hungary’s Purge of Senior Military Officers Can Teach Us All

MoA on Russiagate

 https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/02/on-the-media-of-russiagate-and-related-fake-stories.html#more

John Helmer on changes in the Russian economy

 THE VLADIMIR KUTS LONG-DISTANCE EFFECT — SANCTIONS AND GEOGRAPHY ARE REPLACING THE RUSSIAN OLIGARCHY WITH STATE PLANNING, PRODUCING A BETTER GROWTH RATE THAN THE US, GERMANY

Bhadrakumar on the recent drone attack on Iran

 The West sees Iran in a new way

Big Serge on how Moscow became the capital of Russia

 https://mobile.twitter.com/witte_sergei/status/1525569581124681728

The Duran on the military possibilities in Ukraine with Scott Ritter

 

Larry Johnson on the end of Ukraine operation

 IS RUSSIA’S OFFENSIVE UNDERWAY AND IS THE U.S. TRYING TO BROKER A DEAL?

Latest from Douglas Macgregor

 

Bhadrakumar on gas to india and Pakistan

 Russia’s gas union eyes Pakistan, India

Corruption in UK and Europe from’The Duran’

 

Brian Berletic discusses Rand reports from 2019 and 2023

 

Closing an oil well with nuclear explosion in 1966

 

Via Reminiscences of the Future

Shorter version

Transcript: Ezra Klein Interviews Jessica Chen Weiss

 About US-China competition Transcript: Ezra Klein Interviews Jessica Chen Weiss

Destabilizing other countries

 NATO has already destabilized Europe, is it about to deliver the same medicine to Asia?

Rand study from April 2019 on prolonged Ukraine war

 Summary from Moon of Alabama:

The reports final policy advice concludes:

A dramatic, overnight shift in U.S. policy is politically impossible—both domestically and with allies—and would be unwise in any case. But developing these instruments now and socializing them with Ukraine and with U.S. allies might help catalyze the eventual start of a process that could bring this war to a negotiated end in a time frame that would serve U.S. interests. The alternative is a long war that poses major challenges for the United States, Ukraine, and the rest of the world.

Victoria Nuland on Nord Stream Blast

 See at 1:42:33

Happy

Business opportunities in Ukraine

 According to Zelensky:

“Addressing the National Association of State Chambers (NASC) meeting in Boca Raton, Florida on Monday, Zelensky argued that “American business can become the locomotive that will once again push forward global economic growth.”

“We have already managed to attract attention and have cooperation with such giants of international financial and investment world as Blackrock, JP Morgan and Goldman Sachs,”Zelensky said. “Such American brands as Starlink or Westinghouse have already become a part of our Ukrainian Way.”

According to Zelensky, “everyone can become a big business by working with Ukraine, in all sectors: from weapons and defense to construction, from communication to agriculture, from transport to IT, from banks to medicine.””

An introduction to Sanjay Subrahmanyam

 Some of his publications

sTranslating Sanjay Subrahmanyam

Long discussion ar Roundtable

 Brian Berletic, Dima of Military Summary, Weeb Union take part in the discussion with Gonzalo Lira. The discussion is about the recent firing of various Ukrainian officials, escalation of the conflict by USA which seems to be solely running the show after the recent firings of Ukrainian officials.

On the recent purge in Ukraine

 https://gilbertdoctorow.com/ “Panelists on the talk show identified leading members of Zelensky’s Servant of the People party who have been forced from office as folks who were aligned with Boris Johnson. Their replacements are expected to be people more closely aligned with the United States.”

Alistair crooke take on the current situation in Ukraine

 The most egregious mistake

John Helmer on Russian economy

 Still a hotch potch

Updates from Douglas Mcgregor and Scott Ritter

 

and Scott Ritter

Update from Brian Berletic

Russian Gains, US Gears Up for Crimea Escalation, US Proxies Strike China/Pakistan in Train Bombing

Mostly about Ukraine. The information about other countries is from 39 minutes onwards.

The Duran discusses the current situation in Ukraine

 

Some German generals on Ukraine war

 From John Helmer

Big Serge 

@witte_sergei

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16h

This offers a partial explanation as to why Germany wants to obstruct Leopards from being sent to Ukraine. The USA will squeeze them out of the arms market.

Scott Ritter in discussion with a Russian who was earlier in the American army

 

Big Serge on Ukraine

 This is getting lot of references Russo-Ukrainian War: The World Blood Pump

A summary

Scott Ritter on Wagner military and other topics

 

Michael Hudson answers questions on geo-political affairs and oil prices

 

Michael Hudson on GDP

 

Interview with economist Ashoka Modi

 ‘A Small Indian Elite Controls Narrative, Talk Of India’s Decade Is Juvenile Economics’ interview with Ashoka Modi by Kavitha Iyer. Hated hitting interview which seems essentially correct to me.

Brando Milanovic on Ukraine conflict

Four historico-ideological theories about the origin of the current war in Ukraine 

 Part 1and Part 2

Review of a book on Ukraine

 Nationalism vs. Regionalism: A Review of “The Tragedy of Ukraine” by Nicolai Petro

Another from Duran with Brian Berletic

 

Ukraine update from TheDuran

 

Emmanuel Todd o the Ukraine war

 Emmanuel Todd on the Third World War The article also links to Economists Radhika Desai & Michael Hudson Explain Multipolarity, Decline of US Hegemony

Carver Mead’s Spectator interview

 Here with a wonderful exposition of how big an electron is.

Russia’s next move?

 

Ukraine updates from Brian Beretic and The Duran

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNPJrlFQL1o

Naatu Naatu wins Golden Globe

Atu  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtTqLnkBQnY

RGV on Sridevi

 Old videos I missed. He seems deeply affected by her.

A few years before when she was alive https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tFLTu7tUsbA&t=2940s

Updates on Ukraine

 There are various updates from Colonel Douglas MacCgregor,The Duran, Military Summar, Brian Berletic. Brian Berletic seems to think that it will be a protracted war like the one in Syria whereas the others seem to see quicker end.

A discussion on national identities with reference to Ukraine

 The book https://books.google.com.au/books?id=IauYEAAAQBAJ&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&printsec=frontcover&dq=the+tragedy+of+ukraine&hl=en&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false

Discussion 

On Oppenheimer

 The eccentricities of J.Robert Oppenheimer

Updates from Douglas Macgregor and Scott Ritter

 

Interview with Veerabhadrudu

 

More about Grothendieck

 The Mysterious Disappearance of a Revolutionary Mathematician

Via Pierre Schapira on Récoltes et Semailles which has links to other articles about Grothendieck.

An Englishman and an American have The Ukraine Talk

 From December 15, 2022 with audio corrected

Look also the comment 

Promyczek05

6 hours ago (edited)

Anna from Poland: With great interest I have been following Col. Macgregor’s geopolitical analyses. As a proud Pole with my country’s good at heart, I would like to share with you a compilation of bare facts with regard to Polish-Ukrainian relations. Here it goes: UKRAINIAN QUESTION IN A NUTSHELL……..

Next stop Turkey

 

Another round table discussion from Gonzalo Lira

Almost four hours long about various aspects of Ukraine conflict. I listened to bits of it. Generally interesting.

A very Cold War ahead and Putin’s successor

 

Ukraine update from Brian Berletic

 

Garrincha

 

Pele gone.

 

Update from Military Summary

 It seems that Russians are grinding their way through Eastern Ukraine

Some speculations from The Duran, some about trap for Poland

 When not much is happening on the ground

Russia ‘s challenges in Ukraine by Brian Berletic

 

Two from Nouriel Roubini

 From FT

Merry Christmas

 Reading tea leaves: military part of the Ukraine crisis will be over by next summer with Russia prevailing. Political and economic adjustments will go on for at least ten years. No nuclear flare up; too much money at stake for the military industrial complex.

Update from Scott Ritter

 

Transcripts of Putin latest events

 

From a comment in MoA (I have not read them yet) 

 “transcripts of Putin's latest events, today's presser and the Council of State Meeting that preceded it. That makes for five very important events this week that started with Russia's Meetings Plan for Tomorrow: Council for Strategic Development and National Projects, ‘

A brief discussion at The Duran. Wide ranging discussion of various factions in US and changing attitudes of different countries in Europe.

A question which keeps coming up is whether there will be nuclear confrontation. My guess that it is unlikely since there will be no profits for the military industrial congressional complex.

Mike Whitney says that there will be escalation in Ukraine

 Why Putin's Winter Offensive Will Prompt US Entry Into the War

Douglas Macgregor article quoted by Mike Whitney Washington Is Prolonging Ukraine's Suffering

The beginnings of Putin era

 This article seems to be written soon after 200 based on work done during that year.Putin’s path to power by Peter Rutland.

(Putin's Path to Power

Peter Rutland 

Pages 313-354 | Published online: 15 May 2013

Post-Soviet Affairs 

Volume 16, 2000 - Issue 4)

The end according to Scott Ritter

 

A discussion with Jeffrey Sachs by’The Duran’

 Jeffrey Sachs had a ringside seat with Russia since Gorbachev and Yeltsin times. He has been involved in in economic development issues as an advisor to various country from Poland and Russia to Latin America. As far as I can see, his record is mixed. The response fromWashington to his suggestions were positive in the case Poland and negative in the case of Russia, he says. He attributes this to the influence of neocons. In the discussion there is not much about the attitude of other Eastern European countries; the role of nationalism as well as the attitude of the nations to the then attractive side of western life. Module this, it seems to correspond to the opinions of various people like Douglas Macegregor, Alexander Mercouris, Scott Ritter and others that we have been following. The general feel is now Russia has an upper hand and cannot really loose unless there are unexpected developments like nuclear options.

Latest from Dougla Macgregor

 

Qatar warns EU

 Qatar warns EU of consequences amid graft probe

Straight talk from Douglas Macgregor

 

A comment from Moon of Alabama about controlling the oligarchs.

 Though Chinese trajectory to wealth is known, Russian trajectory is not clear. It certainly had an industrial base which might not have been very efficient. The following comment give some plausible reasons.

@wagelaborer 14

You misunderstand China is and Russia too.

87% of China's economy is owned by regional banks which are responsible for recycling profits directly into their regional economies. Basically an inversion of the capitalist system where the bulk of the capital serves the oligarchs, with a tiny trickle going to the workers and even less supporting the public sector.

This is how China has sustained its growth while financing urbanization, public infrastructure and facilities, increased median income almost ten times over since the 1990s, eliminated extreme poverty and almost eliminated poverty in all but the most rural backwaters.

In China the billionaires step very carefully, because they know that they, along with any politicians they suborn, are, if caught engaging in corrupt practices, likely to be tried, and if found guilty, executed pour encourager les autres.

As for Russia, the post-Soviet jewish-Ukrainian oligarchs who looted the public and purchased the government enabling them to make out like bandits under Yeltsin (principally buying up Soviet assets for pennies on the dollar using funds from the USA and Israel see e.g. Braguinsky Serguey (2009). Postcommunist Oligarchs in Russia: Quantitative Analysis. The Journal of Law and Economics. 2009 52:2, 307-349) were decimated under Putin, who offered the семибанкирщина (Seven Bankers, six jewish) and other oligarchs a simple choice. Stay out of politics or join their dead, jailed, exiled or bankrupted peers (See e.g. Harding Luke (2007-07-02). The richer they come: Can Russia's oligarchs keep their billions - and their freedom? The Guardian). 

Posted by: Hermit | Dec 17 2022 22:05 utc | 

So the moral May be control the oligarchs. The remark is from the thread https://www.moonofalabama.org/2022/12/ukraine-sitrep-more-missiles-attack-plans-artillery-hits-morale.html#comments

Why White and not Keynes? Inventing the postwar monetary system

 IMF working paper 2002. Keynes comes out as a British imperialist, I think.

Postwar monetary system

Interview with Woody Guthrie’s daughter

 

In another interview, she found this poem of Woody Guthrie I say to you woman and man

Multipolar future for Africa & the Middle East w/Matthew Ehret

 

Merkel’s perfidy

 More for the record.Merkel on Minsk agreements

Patriot missiles for Ukraine

 They were used by Saudi Arabia but Yemen seems to have managed well against them. Here is Brian Berletic about the possibilities of profits for Lockheed-Martin.

More troubles brewing

 Now in Mongolia from Indian Punchline

Long interview with Douglas Macgregor

 Parts of these appeared before the MoA post.

The Duran update on Mongolia gas pipelines

 

Latest update from MoA with three videos of Dr. Michael Vlahos & Col. Douglas Macgregor

 Ukraine SitRep - Catastrophic Losses, Failing Wonder Weapons, NATO Escalation

About M.P.Murthy

An article and an interview

Douglas Macgregor on the current state of affairs in Ukraine.

 I think that there will be more escalation with hits inside Russia.

Dethroning the dollar

Dethroning the Dollar: Why the Alternatives Are Not Ready for Prime Time by Yves Smith

China’s Century of humiliation

 

Leela Naidu later years in Colaba

 Bad liver and a broken heart

https://songmeanings.com/songs/view/50361/

States vs centre, a book review from The Outlook

 North vs South india

Missiles Ukraine, drones Russia etc from Alexander Christoforou

 Alexander Christoforou attributes the current escalation to the recent visit of Victoria Nuland to Kiev

Long discussion between Alexander Mercouris and Gonzalo Lira

 

Lack of understanding of Russia

Scott Ritter explains the problems of negotiations with Russia

Situation on the ground

 In Ukraine and Taiwan and China with Patrick Lancaster and Alex at Reporterfy

The Coming European Economic Apocalypse

 By Seshadri Kumar Seems a comprehensive summary; I found it only today and did not read it completely.

Scott Ritter predicts the end of war in Ukraine by next summer

 

Bhadrakumar’s latest on Ukraine

 Conflict in Ukraine is doomed to escalate