Scott Ritter answers some questions

 

Simplicius on the Ukraine counter offensive

SITREP 3/24/23: Offensive Paranoia! 

Scott Ritter on the Ukraine counter offensive around Bakhmut

 

Eurasian integration

 Eurasian Integration Including Iran Proceeds Despite US “Maximum Pressure” Campaign

Collapses in Australia

As more Australian businesses go under, there are warnings that the past six months is only the beginning with things set to get worse. 

A credit creation theory of banking

 Yves here. This is deceptively important post. We’ve regularly mentioned that mainstream economists and the monetary economists at the Fed and presumably many other central banks adhere to the “loanable funds” theory of investment and lending. That model posits that loans come from a pre-existing pool of savings. The credit view, which the Bank of England, and even Greenspan and Bernanke have effectively admitted is how things really work, is that banks create loans out of thin air, and simultaneously, the related deposit. The check on this process is the cost of money (the central bank’s policy rate). This model, unlike the loanable funds story, explains how central bank policy influences credit and money supply growth.

How Monetary Policy Affects Bank Lending and Financial Stability: A ‘Credit Creation Theory of Banking’ Explanation

Depleted uranium shells for Ukraine?

 

Iraq and the Pathologies of Primacy

 Iraq and the Pathologies of Primacy by Stephen Wertheim 

SITREP 3/19/23: AND Weekend Mailbag Answers Extravaganza

 From Simplicius https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/sitrep-31923-and-weekend-mailbag

Simplicius on the age of regression

 Age of Regression is upon us

No reverse gear

 From ‘The Duran’ 

Simplicius answers some questions

 He seems to be one of the better commenters around. But nobody is perfect and their interest in these problems waxes and wanes.

Saturday Reader's Mailbag Extravaganza - (3/11/23) - Answers

Bhadrakumar on the Afghan situation

 Foreign devils on the road to Afghanistan

Gilbert Doctorow on the current situation in Ukraine and Europe

The Washington scenario in phase two is to fight Russia to the last European 

Already people are taking about post-Ukraine word

 This fromDouglas McGregor 

Bhadrakumar on Saudi-Iran rapprochement

 In Indian Punchline “ The agreement announced on Friday in Beijing regarding the normalisation of diplomatic relations between Saudi Arabia and Iran and the reopening of their embassies is a historic event. It goes way beyond an issue of Saudi-Iranian relations. China’s mediation signifies that we are witnessing a profound shift of the tectonic plates in the geopolitics of the 21st century. ”

Alistair Crooke on western intelligence institutions

 HOW COULD WESTERN INTELLIGENCE HAVE GOT IT WRONG, AGAIN? THEY DIDN’T. THEY HAD OTHER PURPOSES

An update from Douglas Mcgregor

 

Another emerging confrontation in Sahel

 Coups, Chaos, and the Crumbling of the Francafique: the Widening War between East and West in Africa’s Sahel

Another Scott Ritter interview on the overall picture

 

A reality check for Modi Govt’s G20 ambitions

 A reality check for Modi Govt’s G20 ambitions

“A plausible explanation could be that after being threatened with a regime change orchestrated by the western intelligence — starting with the BBC documentary, followed by the Hindenburg report, and culminating in George Soros’s prognosis of a “democratic revival” in India — the ruling elite panicked.”

And from ‘the Duran’ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfrTlBvstOw

Here is one from Big Serge, one of the best articles I have seen so far

 Russo-Ukrainian War: Schrodinger’s Offensive

Bhadrakumar on Adani

 Reports of Adani’s eclipse are greatly exaggerated

Changing face of war from Simplicius

 Changing face of war

Ukraine update

 

Indian PM offers hints to Russia in critical speech

Indian PM offers hints to Russia in critical speech ;

“Does the Modi quote reinforce the argument that New Delhi is speaking with a forked tongue?

Indian foreign policy mandarins disagree with that notion. They maintain that this is a sign of the changing times, where an “India First” foreign policy is the need of the hour. New Delhi decides for itself, and its independent foreign policy cannot be subject to any kind of coercions.

India, which is home to one-fifth of the world’s population, deserves the right to form and hold its own position and to weigh its own interests in a multipolar world.”

On the Chinese initiatives

 

And from Moon of Alabama

One year update on Ukraine war from Alexander Mercouris

 

Update by Bhadrakumar

 Russia’s Ukraine offensive in suspended animation

Another Ukraine update, this time from Simplicius

 Simplicious and Big Serge do not report daily but seem to come up with well reasoned and fact based reports.SitRep 2/23: Putin, Prigozhin, PMC's and PMR's Prigozhin saga seems to be temporarily resolved.

Reversing Brexit

 

Possible Ukraine offensive

 

Overall view of the military situation in Ukraine

 COMPLEX, COMPREHENSIVE ANALYSIS FROM SIMPLICIUS76

Four in all. If some of the links do not work, copy the link and pate in the browser. Some are discussed in the comments section of https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/02/ukraine-open-thread-2023-41.html#comments

Emmanuel Todd interviews about Ukraine

 A short one and a longer one 

Wagner chief envisages a two year conflict

 From various sources including Gilbert Doctorow

Ray McGovern, Larry Johnson and Gilbert Doctorow Discuss the Potential for an Armistice in Ukraine

 

On the Hersh report

 There have been several discussions from John Helmer, MoA, Alexander Mercouris, The Duran and others, some of them differing from Hersh. Here is a brief discussion from Scott Ritter in Judging Freedom.

The Duran Interview with NoamChomsky

 

Brian Berletic hosts China-Russia historical interactions discussion

 

IN-DEPTH: Chinese-Russian History with Mark Sleboda & Carl Zha

Seymour Hersh on Nord Stream sabotage

How America Took Out The Nord Stream Pipeline

See also https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2023/02/seymour-hersh-navy-divers-spooks-norway-took-out-nordstream-2-on-bidens-orders-using-timer.html

Yves Smith discusses Russian budget deficit in January 2023

 Russia’s Budget Deficit Jumps Amid Plunging Oil Revenues see also the comments for some clarifications

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.