Stvari, ki bi jih radi danes pozabili, kot da se niso nikoli zgodile:

1. Ruski predsednik Vladimir Putin je leta 2007 svaril pred širjenjem Nata proti ruskim mejam v nasprotju z obljubami leta 1990:

10 Feb 2007: Vladimir Putin was invited to speak at the Munich Security Conference. He questioned NATO’s eastward expansion and its role in promoting tension and distrust between Russia and the West. Putin: “It turns out that NATO has put its frontline forces on our borders…”

“I think it’s obvious that NATO expansion does not have any relation with ensuring security in Europe. On the contrary,” Putin added, “it represents a serious provocation that reduces the level of mutual trust.”

Putin asked, “Against whom is this expansion intended? What happened to the assurances our western partners made after the dissolution of the Warsaw Pact?”

Putin reminded the audience what German Diplomat Manfred Wörner, then serving as NATO General Secretary, said on 17 May 1990 in Brussels: “The fact that we are ready not to place a NATO army outside of German territory gives the Soviet Union a firm security guarantee.” Where are these guarantees?

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V isto kategorijo vrhunske človeške neumnosti spada tudi spodnja novica. Ukrajina je prepredena z ruskimi plinovodi, skozi katere teče najcenejši plin na svetu. Toda zaprla je pipe in se odločila, da bo raje kupovala 4-krat dražji ameriški utekočinjen plin in ga prek Grčije po transbalkanskem plinovodu prek Bolgarije, Romunije in Moldavije prenašala do Ukrajine. Zelenski se ob tem veselo smehlja, kajti (tudi) račun za plin bodo na koncu plačevali evropski davkoplačevalci. Other peoples money.

Robert Skidelsky je legenda med ekonomskimi zgodovinarji. Med drugim avtor fantastične 3-delne biografije Johna M. Maynarda. In seveda redek glas razuma med intelektualci v aktualni kakofoniji. Njegova nappved je, da bo po koncu sedanje ere globalizacije nujno prišel val protekcionizma in z njim fašizacija v notranji politični situaciji držav. Naslednja možna faza je vojna.

Nekoč so bili dvoji bogovi gotskega rocka – Sisters of Mercy in The Mission. Nato pa sta prišla Nirvana in grunge

The greatest irony in modern finance? The EU is so desperate to steal Russia’s sovereign assets that its own custodian — Euroclear, is now warning it may sue Brussels if they try it. When your vault threatens to drag you into court for breaking the law, you no longer have a financial order, you have a cartel panicking under its own lies.

Euroclear, the Belgian securities giant holding roughly €185–200 billion in Russian sovereign reserves, has quietly delivered the EU a message sharper than any Kremlin statement: If you force us to hand over frozen Russian central bank assets for your €140 billion Ukraine scheme, you’re exposing us to massive legal liability and we will take you to court.

This isn’t a sideshow. Euroclear is the core of the EU’s financial plumbing. It’s where states, banks, institutions, pension funds, and sovereign wealth vehicles settle their transactions. It’s the reason Brussels pretends to be a safe custodian of global capital.

And now? The custodian is telling the political class, “If you break international law to rob Moscow, you break us, and we will drag you into the dock with us.”

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