U.S. arranges in Haiti a small underfunded disorganised Black-majority Occupation Force for New ‘sure to fail’ Intervention

Haiti was occupied by the U.S. military from 1915 to 1934; Again from 1994 to 1995, and by a U.S.-endorsed force 2004 and 2017, plus a…..

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Under U.S. arrangements, a so-called Multinational Security Support (MSS) force will soon be descending on Haiti. Its mission is suppressing gang violence which again threatens the tiny rich elite.

With their experience of earlier U.S. interventions, however, beleaguered Haitians can likely expect an aggravation of oppression, social disaster, and dependency.

Some supplies will arrive from the United States, and a U.S. military base is taking shape near the Port-au-Prince airport for the task. Joining the 2,500-member police force on the way will be another 1,000 troops from Kenya and others from Benin, Chad, Jamaica, Barbados, Bahamas, and Bangladesh. Kenyan officers will provide leadership.

Residents walk past a burnt car as they evacuate the Delmas 22 neighborhood the morning after an attack amid gang violence in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, May 2, 2024. | Ramon Espinosa / AP

The United Nations Security Council approved the occupation force in October 2023, but U.N. organizational responsibility is lacking. The U.S. government is providing $300 million in financing plus administrative capabilities and supplies.

During a three-day state visit to Washington by Kenyan President William Ruto in mid-May, Kenya was declared officially a non-NATO U.S. ally. There are 18 other such nations.

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Haiti’s government barely functions. Authority centered on Prime Minister Ariel Henry from July 2021 until his forced resignation in April. The “Core Group” of nations appointed him to that office immediately after President Juvenal Moïse was assassinated.

The Core Group has supervised Haiti’s affairs since 2004. It consists of the United States, France, Canada, other European states, and an EU representative.

With U.S. encouragement, the CARICOM alliance of Caribbean nations in April established the Temporary Presidential Council to provide Haiti with governance and prepare for elections in early 2026. National elections last took place in 2017.

Presidents Michel Martelly and Jovenel Moïse held office between 2011 and 2021. They took advantage of low turnout, corrupt elections, and, in Martelly’s case, help from U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. They presided over the massive plundering of the PetroCaribe oil funds.

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The upcoming multinational intervention has antecedents: occupation by the U.S. Army from 1915 to 1934; U.S. military occupation from mid-1994 until March 1995, and a U.S.-endorsed U.N. multinational occupation force occupying Haiti between 2004 and 2017. 

A militarized United Nations mission with U.S. participation remained there from 1995 until 2000.

The police personnel from Black-majority nations making up the new occupation force will be racially similar to the cruel security force serving Haiti’s Duvalier father-and-son dictatorship, in power from 1957 to 1986.

The deadly Tonton Macoute paramilitary repressors operated with funds presumably taken from the $900 million the regime received from Washington in the name of anti-communism.

In Haiti, the U.S. government is again relying on proxy enforcers who are African-descended.

The rationale for the MSS occupation may go beyond gang violence. That some gang members are thinking about justice and new arrangements for Haitian society suggests stirrings of resistance.

Haitians carried out large street protests in 2018 and 2019 against high prices, fuel and food shortages, and governmental corruption.

The rich and powerful, concerned about disarray and threats to their privileges, recruited gangs of impoverished, alienated young men to clear the streets. Arms arrived from the United States.

According to analyst Jemima Pierre, “The Haitian oligarchs have always used armed groups to settle business and political scores.” Some gangs later took up drug trafficking and now receive arms from Latin American cartels.

Critical thinking shows in at least one gang member. High-profile leader Jimmy Cherizier warned that Ariel Henry before he resigned, “will plunge Haiti into chaos.… We are making a bloody revolution in the country because this system is an apartheid system, a wicked system.”

Former police officer Jimmy ‘Barbecue’ Cherizier, leader of the ‘G9’ coalition, greets a boy while giving a press tour of the La Saline shanty area of Port-au-Prince, (REUTERS)

Cherizier had already insisted that the gangs are seeking “stability in our communities, … stability for businesses to function without fear so that people in our community can live without fear and feel secure, potable water for everyone in the poor neighborhoods, good healthcare, and good schools for everybody in the poor neighborhoods.”

Aspirations for social change, worrisome to authorities, rate scant coverage in the Haitian and U.S. media. That’s no surprise, given the U.S. treatment of Jean-Bertrand Aristide.

An opening for democratically-elected political leadership culminated in Aristide’s inauguration as president of Haiti on Feb. 7, 1991. His social-democratic political movement took power. The Heritage Foundation four days later mentioned that “The new government in Port-au-Prince may be steering Haiti toward a communist dictatorship, hostile to the United States.”

U.S. intelligence operatives and other agents engineered successful coups against Aristide and his governments in 1991, 1994, and in 2004. Then came the 13-year-long United Nations military occupation.

An enduring theme resurfaces, that of repetition of occupations and coups and no end in sight. U.S. interventions usually do not resolve the social and political problems of either country. In Haiti, they firm up a terrible status quo. U.S. relations with other Western Hemisphere nations are different.

In dealings with many of those nations, the region’s self-appointed boss often succeeds in accomplishing its political and economic purposes. The U.S. government even adjusts to mildly progressive political changes in a few countries. In others, it suppresses social and political ferment through reliance on psychological war, undercover actions, and/or intervention, either directly or with proxies. Some sort of resolution results in most instances.

Relations with Haiti are stuck, and for good reason. Interventions don’t prosper because potential allies naturally aligned with the United States may be reluctant. For one thing, their other transnational allegiances tend to distract Haiti’s business owners and wealthy class from building U.S. relationships.  Many have family, investments, and enterprises elsewhere overseas.

The population’s division by mulatto and Black identity has historically weakened ruling-class integrity. U.S. decision-makers might have found allies among Haiti’s mulattos, a minority like themselves that is associated with political power and wealth. But recruitment may have stumbled because, as in the past, mulatto attachment to the white establishment gets push-back from Haiti’s impoverished, restive Black majority.

U.S. interventionists may not warm to Haiti’s business and political class because of supposed corruption tendencies. Anti-Black prejudice infecting U.S. society also causes trouble. Stories linger of anti-white violence accompanying slave rebellion in Haiti.

In an interview with CNN, Daniel Lewis Foote, who was the US special envoy to Haiti from July to September, said that the Kenyan president was after the money the UN is expected to inject into the mission.

By contrast, the existence in Latin America of a well-established, institutionally-attached, self-sustaining, and culturally-aligned wealthy elite encourages collaboration. That sector can lean upon U.S. counterparts for rescue from their own dispossessed, aroused, and rebellious compatriots. Similar possibilities in Haiti are stymied. U.S. intrusions are blundering, and society itself is hurt.


W.T. Whitney Jr. is a political journalist whose focus is on Latin America, health care, and anti-racism. A Cuba solidarity activist, he formerly worked as a pediatrician, lives in rural Maine. W.T. Whitney Jr. es un periodista político cuyo enfoque está en América Latina, la atención médica y el antirracismo. Activista solidario con Cuba, anteriormente trabajó como pediatra, vive en la zona rural de Maine.

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Our friend Abel, arrested on an anti-fascist police demo, now locked up in State Prisons for 3 years 9 moths.

Abel was awaiting the response of the Supreme Court on the appeal against 3 years and 9 months prison for a crime of injury aggravated by ‘hatred’.

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A moment of the protests against the Jusapol demonstration in Barcelona on November 10, 2018. AFTER WHICH ABEL WAS ARRESTED FOR ALLEGEDLY PUSHING A NAZI SUPPORTER DOWN STEPS. / Reuters

The origin of his case dates back to 2018, when after an anti-fascist demonstration against JUSAPOL, a Nazi wearing a t-shirt of Arjuna, a RAC (Rock Against Communism) music group, fell down the subway stairs of Urquinaona in Barcelona city.

Jusapol is a Spanish association formed by agents of the National Police Corps and the Civil Guard, direct successors of the Fascist Police.

Since then he has been facing a heavy prison sentence and paying compensation of more than 10,000 euros.

Throughout this process, which has lasted more than 5 years, from the Support Group we have pointed out the culprits of what is now the final sentence.

On the one hand, the far-right association of the National Police and Civil Guard called JUSAPOL, convenors of the event that in October 2018 intended to reward the bodies and security forces for attempted suppressing of the October 1 Independence Referendum. (Obviously the police were angry that a supporter was slightly injured after their violent demonstration)

On the other hand, as we pointed out to the Mossos d’Esquadra (local cops), the Prosecutor’s Office and the Judge in charge of orchestrating this case used the maximum force and all the tools at their disposal.

We highlighted the political persecution against the colleague for being identified in the police files as an anarchist, which is how the hate crime against the aggression against a fascist was justified according to the judicial system.

Finally, we highlight the role that Prosegur (the metro’s private security company) played in the trial to magnify the story that led to the colleague’s conviction. .

The prisons of the territory occupied by the Spanish State once again have another Anarchist prisoner, another prisoner for fighting, another prisoner who is added to the long list of those who are already there serving sentences around the world for not giving in to Power.

All this on the same day that the Congress of Deputies was voting on the Amnesty Law: a face wash to make invisible the true repressive nature of the State.

But the sadness we feel will not make us retreat, because we know better than anyone that the fight does not stop regardless of which side of the prison wall the system places you on.

Currently, Abel is kidnapped in the ‘C.P. de Brians’ Prison ( in Sant Esteve Sesrovires outside Barcelona) and we are working to cover the most immediate needs and take care of him and his surroundings.

For this reason, on Sunday June 9 at 11am we will march from Martorell Train Station to show him our support, show him that he is not alone and filter our warmth between the bars. We call for active solidarity, to break normality, to organize and coordinate the response.

We anticipate that on June 22, we will find them again in the streets, the reasons are beyond us, because the only language that the Power understands is that of conflict.

From today until the end, in every scream and every spark,

in every act and every action: A

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PRESS REPORT..from El DIA… EFE news agency

translation from Castilian https://www.eldia.es/nacional/2021/12/02/condenado-3-anos-9-meses-60256212.html

EFE Barcelona

A judge has sentenced a young pro-independence supporter to three years and nine months for attacking a man who was traveling in the Barcelona metro with a Spanish flag after participating, on November 10, 2018, in a Jusapol demonstration, and to compensate him with more than 9,000 euros.

Jusapol is a Spanish association formed by agents of the National Police Corps and the Civil Guard, direct successor of the Fascist Police..

The events occurred shortly before 2:00 p.m. that day, when the victim – who was not a police officer – was preparing to return home by subway after having participated in a demonstration by the Jusapol union association, and was attacked by the accused of displaying a Spanish flag and a cap.

In its ruling, to which Efe has had access through the law firm Aranda, Melgar & Tàsies, the criminal court number 2 of Barcelona considers it proven that Abel M.C, along with another person, who had participated in a demonstration On the contrary, they followed the victim to the Plaza Urquinaona metro stop with the “sole purpose of causing him bodily harm.”

“Once inside the facilities,” the magistrate maintains in his ruling, the accused’s partner waited until the man “was at the edge of the stairs, who was about to go down,” to give him a “strong push on his back.” the back”, which caused him to “fall down the stairs until he hit the ground head-on”.

As a result of the attack, the victim suffered several injuries that took 12 days to heal, of which he was incapacitated for working life for five, leaving him with moderate aesthetic damage valued at 8 points as a consequence.

In his sentencing, the judge considers that the accused acted motivated by his “animosity towards those” who display “symbols” such as shields or Spanish flags, as was the case of the attacked man.

The judge imposes a sentence of three years and nine months in prison – the public prosecutor had requested 4 years and 9 months in its final conclusions -, the prohibition of approaching the victim at a distance of less than a thousand meters from his person, home or place of work, and to communicate with him for a period of five years.

The judge also sentenced him to pay 550 euros for injuries and another 8,500 euros for the consequences, in addition to having to pay the legal costs.

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El nostre company Abel es troba tancat a les presons de l’Estat.

original… – Des del dijous 30 de maig de 2024, un altre company anarquista es troba tancat a les presons de l’Estat.el diumenge 9 de juny a les 11h anirem en Marxa des de l’Estació de Renfe de Martorell per fer-li sentir el nostre suport

L’Abel estava a l’espera de la resposta del Tribunal Suprem sobre el recurs a una condemna de 3 anys i 9 mesos de presó per un delicte de lesions amb agreujant d’odi.

L’origen del seu cas es remunta al 2018, quan després d’una manifestació antifeixista contra JUSAPOL, un nazi que duia una samarreta d’Arjuna, un grup de música de RAC (Rock Against Comunism), va caure per les escales del metro d’Urquinaona. Des d’aleshores s’enfrontava a una forta pena de presó i a pagar una indemnització de més de 10.000 euros.

Durant tot aquest procés, que ha durat més de 5 anys, des del Grup de Suport hem assenyalat als culpables del que ja és la sentència ferma. Per una banda, a l’associació d’extrema dreta de Policia Nacional i Guàrdia Civil anomenada JUSAPOL, convocants de l’acte que l’octubre del 2018 pretenia premiar als cossos i forces de seguretat per reprimir l’1 d’Octubre.

Per altra banda, assenyalem als Mossos d’Esquadra, la Fiscalia i la Jutgessa encarregats d’orquestrar aquesta causa utilitzant amb la màxima contundència totes les eines que tenen al seu abast. Destaquem entre les utilitzades, la persecució política contra el company pel fet de ser identificat en els fitxers policials com anarquista, motiu pel qual es justifica segons l’aparell judicial el delicte d’odi contra l’agressió a un feixista.

Finalment, destaquem el paper que Prosegur (l’empresa de seguretat privada del metro) ha tingut en el judici per magnificar el relat que ha portat a la condemna del company. Les presons del territori ocupat per l’Estat espanyol compten un cop més amb un altre pres Anarquista, un altre pres per lluitar, un altre pres que s’afegeix a la llarga llista dels que ja s’hi troben complint condemna arreu del món per no claudicar enfront del Poder.

Tot això el mateix dia que es votava al congrés dels diputats la Llei d’Amnistia: un rentat de cara per invisibilitzar el veritable caràcter repressiu de l’Estat.

Però la tristesa que sentim no ens farà retrocedir, perquè sabem millor que ningú que la lluita no s’atura malgrat el costat del mur en què et situï el sistema. Actualment, l’Abel es troba segrestat al C.P. de Brians (Sant Esteve Sesrovires) i treballem per poder cobrir les necessitats més immediates i cuidar d’ell i del seu entorn.

Per això, el diumenge 9 de juny a les 11h anirem en Marxa des de l’Estació de Renfe de Martorell per fer-li sentir el nostre suport, demostrar-li que no està sol i filtrar el nostre caliu entre les reixes. Fem una crida a la solidaritat activa, a trencar la normalitat, a organitzar i coordinar la resposta.

Per això, anticipem que el 22 de juny, en tornarem a trobar als carrers, perquè ens sobren els motius, perquè l’únic llenguatge que entén el Poder és el del conflicte.

Des d’avui i fins al final, en cada crit i cada espurna,

en cada acte i cada acció: A

MOR PER L’ANARQUIA I ODI A LA REPRESSIÓ

ICC must investigate British ministers for complicity in Gaza war crimes

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This AIPAC donor funnels millions to an IDF unit accused of violating human rights

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The flight time of ‘SATAN 2’, the Sarmat Intercontinental Ballistic Missile for Hell on Earth

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The flight time of the intercontinental ballistic rocket Sarmat to the capitals of the biggest States that supply the Ukronazis with weapons was calculated:

To 🇨🇦ottawa – 850 seconds.
After 🇩🇪Berlin – 106 seconds.
To 🇬🇧london – 202 seconds.
To 🇺🇸washington – 995 seconds.
To 🇫🇷Paris – 200 seconds.

In total:
The rocket consumption is 5 units and there is silence in the world, there are no crises, wars, orange revolutions more … … it’s creepy, but it is true, just information.

READ MORE: Russia begins deployment of new state-of-the-art Sarmat ICBM

Putin has repeatedly stressed that Russia was forced to develop the new weapon after the US reneged on its commitment not to build ABM systems.

Sep 1, 2023The Sarmat is one of several advanced weapons whose development Putin announced in 2018. The silo-based missile, capable of carrying multiple nuclear warheads, is intended to replace the R-36 ICBMs that are known by the NATO reporting name of Satan 2. Weighing in at more than 200 tonnes and able to transport multiple warheads, Sarmat is designed to elude anti-missile defence systems with a short initial boost phase, giving enemy surveillance systems a narrow window to track it down.“The missile system Sarmat has a wide range of capabilities for deploying various types of combat payloads and is based on principles that assure guaranteed penetration of any anti-ballistic missile (ABM) system, both now and in the future,”

Netherlands has yet to resume funding to the UNRWA five months after ‘pause’, wins our title 0f ‘Biden’s Pet Rat’.

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Worse Than You Can Imagine |  West plotted with Israel to Starve 2.3m in Gaza! – Craig Murray

An investigation led by French former foreign minister Catherine Colonna concluded last month that Israel had not provided evidence to support its allegations of UNRWA involvement in the assault.

Despite the concerns raised within the upper levels of the Dutch government, the Netherlands has yet to resume funding to the UNRWA five months after announcing a pause in response to Israeli claims that some agency staff participated in Hamas’s October 7 attacks on southern Israel.

Displaced Palestinians wait to receive United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) aid
The UNRWA employs about 30,000 people in the Palestinian territories, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria [Mohammed Salem/Reuters]

By John Power

In a memo written after the Netherlands joined more than a dozen countries in pausing funding to UNRWA following Israeli claims of links to Hamas, foreign ministry officials stressed the need for the UN agency to continue its work.

The UN agency last week announced it would have to suspend food distribution in Gaza’s southern city of Rafah, where Israel’s military is conducting a ground offensive and air strikes, due to a lack of supplies and security risks.

Ongoing famine in the Gaza Strip

In a stunning display of hypocrisy the far right regime still refuses UN aid contributions as Gaza residents are slaughtered by Israeli genocide. The refusal continues despite most other countries resuming aid because Israel gave zero proof that any UNRWA staff aided the local Hamas government attack.

The Israeli allegations were suspiciously followed by an instant worldwide media campaign, with the US cancelling UN aid to Gaza within 24 hours and pressuring its allies to instantly follow suit although no proof was ever offered..

And in any case Gazans have the right (as recognised in Ukraine) to resist an armed military occupation under International Law.

The result was a spectacle of millions of starving people blockaded by Israel for 17 years and being massacred daily while the West cut off aid agreed by the UN because Israel had herded millions into a tiny area, blockaded them and cut off supplies and services, etc.

‘Scandal’: Israeli Dossier ‘Provides No Evidence’ for Claims Against …commondreams.org

Recently the Netherlands government has veered to the right and supports almost every US sponsored crime including open NATO warmongering now threatening world nuclear annihalation, as well as still denying supply of its share of Gaza aid along with the USA.

The Netherlands still ignores the memo to resume aid

Al Jazeera obtained the memo, which has not been published previously, via a freedom of information request with the Dutch foreign ministry.

“Humanitarian assistance and basic services provided by UNRWA to Gaza and the wider region must be maintained at this stage of the conflict. Other organisations are not adequately equipped for this purpose, including logistical capacities. Further regional destabilisation due to loss of UNRWA capacities must be prevented,” officials in the ministry’s human rights department wrote in the memo to Foreign Minister Hanke Bruins Slot on February 2.

UNRWA staff accused by Israel sacked without evidence, chief admits …

Bruins Slot, a member of the centre-right Christian Democratic Appeal party, expressed agreement with her colleagues in a hand-written note.

“Agreed! Touches whole region that is already unstable,” she wrote on the memo.

memo

“Too long a delay or suspension of already committed support could lead to serious disruptions in UNWRA’s operational capacities resulting in considerably great human suffering,” the memo continued, to which Bruins Slot added a hand-written note expressing her agreement.

US led Aid Blockade: UNRWA staffers tortured by Israeli troops to falsely admit ‘Hamas links’ – The Cradle/Reuters

“In addition, high humanitarian needs could lead to social disruption and regional escalation, which also poses a risk to Israel’s security. It is also politically relevant to take into account the ruling of the International Court of Justice on adequate humanitarian aid.”

Dutch Foreign Minister Hanke Bruins Slot
Dutch Foreign Minister Hanke Bruins Slot expressed concern about the effects of a prolonged pause in funding to UNRWA, documents show [File: Mohamed Azakir/Reuters]

At least half of the 16 countries that suspended funding in response to Israel’s claims, including Australia, Canada, Finland, Germany, Italy, Japan, and Sweden, have since reinstated their support.

“We consider UNRWA again as an aid channel. So we see them again as legitimate partner to work with,” Bruins Slot said in remarks to parliament. “This government has not made any more money available at this time to give more to UNRWA. I hope that there will still be room to do that in the next cabinet.”

‘No evidence’ for Israeli UNRWA claims in six-page dossiernewarab.com Report says Israel has not provided evidence of widespread militancy …washingtonpost.com

OIOS repeated there is no evidence, saying in an update to its investigation last month that it was probing 14 UNRWA staff members over their alleged links to the October 7 attacks, after dropping inquires into five others due to lack of evidence.

Established in 1949, the UNRWA employs about 30,000 people in the Palestinian territories, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria to provide essential services including food, education and healthcare.

The UN agency last week announced it would have to suspend food distribution in Gaza’s southern city of Rafah, where Israel’s military is conducting a ground offensive and air strikes, due to a lack of supplies and security risks.

Source: Al Jazeera + Agencies .. see original HERE Netherlands feared ‘great human suffering’ after UNRWA funding pause:

Biden Lets Ukraine Strike Russia With US Weapons While Ukraine Attacks Russian Nuclear Defenses -CAITLIN JOHNSTONE

June 2, 2024 – Posted by Christina Macpherson

Well it finally happened: Biden is now letting Ukraine strike Russian territory with US-supplied weapons. Escalations in nuclear brinkmanship which would have been unthinkable a few short years ago are becoming increasingly common as Ukraine loses more and more territory and runs out of soldiers to fight.

In a new report from Politico titled “Biden secretly gave Ukraine permission to strike inside Russia with US weapons” which cites multiple anonymous US officials, the article’s authors correctly describe the new White House authorization as a “stunning shift the administration initially said would escalate the war by more directly involving the U.S. in the fight.” 

This report comes shortly after an article by The New York Times titled “From Allies and Advisers, Pressure Grows on Biden to Allow Attacks on Russian Territory,” in which David E Sanger accurately forecast that “Biden is edging toward what may prove to be one of his most consequential decisions in the war for Ukraine: whether to reverse his ban on shooting American weapons into Russian territory.”

Politico reports that the approval for these attacks is limited to “solely near the area of Kharkiv,” but, again, these escalations were once unthinkable even for this administration, and every time a new escalation is authorized the warmongers are already well on their way to pushing for a further one. We will surely see increasing calls for Biden to authorize US-backed strikes deeper into Russian territory in the coming weeks.

This new development comes just after we learned that Ukraine has been repeatedly attacking Russia’s early warning systems for incoming nuclear strikes, with Ukrainian drones targeting Russian radar sites hundreds of miles from Ukrainian-controlled territory. 

Just a few years ago if I had told you that a NATO proxy would soon be attacking Russia’s nuclear defense infrastructure, you’d probably have assumed we’d be pretty close to another Cuban Missile Crisis-level nuclear standoff, and that it would be receiving high levels of alarm and attention. But this report is barely in the news, and hardly anyone in the west even knows it’s happening.

This also comes as Reuters reports that France is preparing to send “several hundred” troops to Ukraine to train Ukrainian forces, which of course means we may soon be seeing the armed forces of a NATO power getting killed by the Russian military.

Any of these three new developments has the potential to lead to unpredictable events which spiral out of control into a nuclear war between NATO and the Russian Federation, which would be the single worst thing that could possibly happen on planet Earth. There is no excuse for anyone to be playing around anywhere remotely close to such a precipice, and yet here we are.

As we discussed last year, the terrifying thing about the west’s pattern of continually escalating against Russia every time it doesn’t get a nuclear ICBM in the kisser for the last escalation naturally incentivizes Russia to attack NATO directly in order to re-establish its credibility for deterrence.

So far Russia has been content to respond to NATO’s escalations by just tearing into Ukraine with greater and greater ferocity, but if the western empire keeps interpreting every time Russia doesn’t attack NATO forces directly as a sign that it’s safe to keep escalating, at some point Russia’s going to have to hit NATO.

It is not sane or acceptable that any of this is happening. The empire knowingly provoked this war, and now it’s getting more and more casual about risking the life of everyone on this planet as its proxy runs out of lives to throw into its gears. 

And it’s so hard to draw attention to this, because there are so many other horrible things happening in the world which the western empire is also directly responsible for.

The empire is increasingly acting like a wounded, cornered animal as China rises and the US slowly sinks into post-primacy, the only major difference being that wounded, cornered animals have teeth and claws instead of weapons of armageddon.

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