Archive for the 'War' Category
U.S. Stops Russian Bond Payments, Raising Risk of Default
April 5th, 2022Via: Reuters: The United States stopped the Russian government on Monday from paying holders of its sovereign debt more than $600 million from reserves held at U.S. banks, in a move meant to ratchet up pressure on Moscow and eat into its holdings of dollars. Under sanctions put in place after Russia invaded Ukraine on […]
Ukraine: Russian Atrocities in Bucha
April 4th, 2022Via: Daily Mail: On the streets of Bucha, northwest of Kyiv, the bodies of civilians have been found scattered, many with bound hands, close-range gunshot wounds and signs of torture, after Russian forces retreated from the area. Ukraine and Western leaders have accused Russia of carrying out the massacre of civilians and dumping their bodies […]
Putin Drafts 134,500 Conscripts, Says They Won’t Go to Ukraine
March 31st, 2022Via: Reuters: President Vladimir Putin on Thursday signed a decree ordering 134,500 new conscripts into the army as part of Russia’s annual spring draft, but the defence ministry said the call-up had nothing to do with the war in Ukraine. The order came five weeks into Russia’s invasion, which has run into fierce Ukrainian resistance. […]
GERMANY: GAS RATIONING
March 30th, 2022Via: Reuters: Germany triggered an emergency plan to manage gas supplies on Wednesday under which Europe’s largest economy could ration power if a standoff over a Russian demand to pay for fuel with roubles disrupts or halts supplies. Moscow’s insistence on rouble payments for the Russian gas that meets a third of Europe’s annual energy […]
Biden Appears to Reveal the U.S. Is Training Ukrainian Troops in Poland
March 29th, 2022Via: Antiwar: President Biden appeared to reveal on Monday that the US is training Ukrainian troops in Poland. Biden made the comments when trying to explain a recent gaffe. In Poland on Friday, President Biden told members of the 82nd Airborne Division that Ukrainians were “stepping up” against the Russian assault and said, “You’re going […]
Saudi Arabia’s “Ability to Ensure Energy Security Is no Longer Guaranteed”
March 29th, 2022Via: AP: Saudi Arabia’s oil chief said markets are going through a “jittery period” and reiterated Tuesday that the kingdom’s ability to ensure energy security is no longer guaranteed. Energy Minister Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman said cross-border attacks have put to question “our ability to supply the world with the necessary energy requirements.” The attacks […]
Hunter Biden and Metabiota [???]
March 27th, 2022Via: Daily Mail: But emails from Hunter’s abandoned laptop show he helped secure millions of dollars of funding for Metabiota, a Department of Defense contractor specializing in research on pandemic-causing diseases that could be used as bioweapons. He also introduced Metabiota to an allegedly corrupt Ukrainian gas firm, Burisma, for a ‘science project’ involving high […]
Biden Says Putin ‘Cannot Remain in Power’
March 26th, 2022This sounds like a collision course is being dialed in. It sounds like the Saddam Hussein operation. Unlike Saddam, however, Putin has nuclear weapons. Via: CNBC: President Joe Biden on Saturday said Russian leader Vladimir Putin “cannot remain in power,” ratcheting up international pressure and further uniting NATO allies against Putin over his invasion of […]
Biden Casually Says Food Shortage “Going To Be Real” As Necessary “Price” Of Anti-Russia Sanctions
March 24th, 2022Via: ZeroHedge: Nothing to see here… only the President of the United States speaking at an emergency summit of NATO heads making somewhat overly casual sounding references regarding likely massive energy and food shortages… “It’s going to be real,” Biden said at a news conference in Brussels. “The price of the sanctions is not just […]
Pentagon Scrambles to Restock Weapons Sent to Ukraine as Arm Makers Look to Cash In
March 23rd, 2022War is a Racket by Smedley Butler Via: Antiwar: The Pentagon is scrambling to replenish stocks of Javelin and Stinger missiles the US and its allies have sent to Ukraine as US defense contractors are cashing in on Washington’s support for Ukraine’s war against Russia. According to open-sourced data examined by Politico, it’s estimated that […]
