Ko Američani rečejo Nemcem: “Obesili vas bomo”,

Nemci odgovorijo: “Prinesemo lastno vrv ali boste vi dali svojo?”

Francija nima samo bedne ekonomske politike (Macronova ekonomska politika je daleč najslabša v zadnjih treh desetletjih; indikator tega je, da se celo Grčija danes dolgoročno zadolžuje ceneje od Francije), pač pa tudi bedno in nekonsistentno zunanjo politiko (Macron je znan po svojih pompoznih izjavah, ki jih že naslednji dan spremeni – od Kitajske, Ukrajine do Izraela). Francija je podobno kot Nemčija s svojim nesposobnim političnim vodstvom degradirala svojo moč in svojo kredibilnost v svetu. Postala je karikatura same sebe.

Spodaj je dober primer francoske bedne hipokrizije in nekonsistentnosti na primeru tiralice Mednarodnega sodišča za Netayahujem. Sramota.

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Benjamin Netanyahu is immune to the ICC arrest warrant, the French foreign ministry assured us yesterday. The French have some skills in bending the law, testing its flexibility and durability, but this is a stretch that is ultimately bound to fail legally, though it may politically be a success.

The French argument is that Netanyahu is covered by immunity because he is the head of a government in a state that is not a member of the ICC. This legal argument won’t hold, according to legal experts on immunity.

First there is no extra-treatment for heads of states. According to Art. 27 of the Rome Statute, all wanted persons are equal before the court, including heads of state or government. And no immunities under international law may bar the court from exercising its jurisdiction.

Second, there is the definition of jurisdiction. Israel may not be member of the ICC, but the State of Palestine is. It was granted membership back in 2015. This means the court can investigate Israeli nationals for crimes committed in occupied Palestine, which includes the Gaza Strip, the West Bank and East Jerusalem.

There is also no exception for France. All 124 signatories to the Rome Statute, including all EU member states, are legally obliged to arrest Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant on their soil and hand them over to the courts. Member states are the enforcers of ICC arrest warrants, whether or not they agree with them politically.

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Andrew Korybko

The populist conservative-nationalist frontrunner might refuse to allow NATO troops to transit through Romania as part of a conventional intervention in Ukraine if he wins the second round next month.

The surprise victory of populist conservative-nationalist Calin Georgescu in the first round of Romania’s presidential election gives this heterodox outsider the chance to enter into office next month. The Mainstream Media is apoplectic since he criticized Romania’s hosting of the US’ missile defense infrastructure and is against perpetuating NATO’s proxy war on Russia through Ukraine. He’s also a devout Orthodox Christian and praised some of his country’s most controversial World War II-era figures.

Interestingly, he was also the diaspora’s favorite, with the added twist being that more in Western Europe voted for him than those in Eastern Europe. This suggests that his appeal is also due to the hope that he’ll bring long-overdue accountability to his infamously corrupt country and finally help its people improve their living standards through more effective economic, financial, and developmental policies. Foreign policy is important, but local issues and economics far outweigh the former for average voters.

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Spodnja razlaga glede delovanja in destruktivne moči rakete Orešnik je strašljiva. Putin jo tudi uporablja z namenom zastraševanja. Kljub temu so tehnične lastnosti delovanja rakete res zastrašujoče. Zaradi velike kinetične energije med letom (nad 11 Machov) se okrog nje ustavri polje plazme, ki jo ščiti pred radarskim in najbrž tudi satelitskim detektiranjem. Zaradi velikih hitrosti v terminalni fazi je ni mogoče prestreči z nobenim zahodnim protizračnim sistemom. Ko zadane cilj se zaradi velike kinetične energije razvijejo temperature blizu 4, tisoč stopinj Celzija (temperatura sonca na površini je med 5 in 6 tisoč stopinj C), kar pomeni, da z učinkom plazme vse stvari spremeni v prah oziroma praelemente. In po njenem učinkovovanju ni radiacije.

Orešnik ne potrebuje jedrskih konic, je zamenjava zanje. Popolni game changer.

Razvoj dronov in hipersoničnih raket in zdaj še Orešnika z lastnostjo, da nosi do 36 konic, bistveno spreminja razmerja vojaške moči. ZDA so do sedaj svojo vojaško prevlado utemeljevale na letalski moči (nadzvočnih letalih in letalonosilkah), kar se je ob tem razvoju izkazalo kot neuporabno. Amerišlke letalonosilke so se izkazale kot neuporabne že proti najbolj pocenskim dronom, ki so jih nanje spuščali jemenski Hutiji in so se raje umaknile iz Rdečega morja. Izraelska letala so se izkazala kot neuporabna v zadnjem izraelskem napadu na Iran, ki se mu niso upala približati na več kot 100 kilometrov, na drugi strani so iranske hipersonične rakete neovirano prodrle skozi izraelski Iron Dome. Toda z enim Orešnikom lahko Rusija iz igre vrže vse ameriške letalonosilke v Sredozemlju, z drugim pa vse ameriške letalske baze v srednji Evropi. To je strašljivo. Ni več potrebe po strašenju z jedrskim orožjem.

Tule je še razlaga za novinarje:

Will the clean hydrogen sector end this year in better shape than 12 months ago?

On the face of it, recent evidence points to a resounding ‘no’, given project cancellations, plunging stock prices, very limited progress in reaching FID and widespread reluctance to commit to long-term offtake deals.

UK company Johnson Matthey added to the gloom in late November when it reported a 46% year-on-year drop in first-half sales of hydrogen technologies, citing the “the slowing buildout of supply chains and infrastructure due to a lack of clarity around regulation and incentives.” It has reduced capex and headcount in its hydrogen business, and delayed the startup of an £80m ($101m) fuel-cell component plant in the UK.

Siemens Energy, which recently launched a large-scale electrolyser factory in Berlin in a joint project with French industrial gases company Air Liquide, struck a similarly downbeat note at the Energy Intelligence Forum in London. The market for hydrogen has “completely stalled”, with less than 7% of projects reaching FID, Anne-Laure de Chammard, executive board member of Siemens Energy, told the forum.

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Od začetka vojne v Ukrajini, ko je konec marca 2022 Bidnova administracija preprečila ukrajinskemu vodstvu podpis mirovnega sporazuma z Rusijo, smo govorili, da je ameriška strategija, da se v Ukrajini bori do zadnjega Ukrajinca. Da bo Ukrajino tako dolgo zalagala z orožjem, dokler Ukrajini ne zmanjka za orožje sposobnih moških. Skoraj tri leta kasneje se točno ta scenarij približuje svojemu koncu, in zadnji, formalni dokaz, je pritisk Washingtona na Kijev, da mobilizira tudi vse moške v starosti med 18 in 25 let. In to kljub temu, da v Washingtonu vedo, da Ukrajina nima niti desetinke promila možnosti, da v tej vojni zmaga. In čeprav vedo, da je življenjsko pričakovanje rekrutirancev na fronti manj kot 2 tedna. In čeprav vedo, da po koncu vojne, do katerega bo slejkoprej prišlo, ne bo več moških, ki bi lahko poskrbeli za obnovo Ukrajine in za nataliteto ter bodoči razvoj.

To je kriminal.

Zakaj Bidnova adminstracija to počne? Preprosto, ker je to zanjo, kot je povedal ameriški nori senator Lindsay Graham, najcenejši način, da izčrpava Rusijo, saj ni treba umreti nobenemu ameriškemu vojaku.

To so ameriški prijatelji, ki so Ukrajino porinili v vojno, ki jo v njej zadržujejo do zadnjega Ukrajinca in ki jo bodo zavrgli kot zadnjega garjavega psa, ko jim ne bo več dovolj koristna za doseganje ameriških interesov.

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The U.S. is willing to (proxy-)fight Russia down to the last Ukrainian.

White House presses Ukraine to lower draft age to meet manpower needs against Russia

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden’s administration is urging Ukraine to quickly increase the size of its military by drafting more troops and revamping its mobilization laws to allow for the conscription of those as young as 18.A senior Biden administration official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the private consultations, said Wednesday that the outgoing Democratic administration wants Ukraine to lower the mobilization age to 18 from the current age of 25 to expand the pool of fighting-age men available to help a badly outnumbered Ukraine in its nearly three-year-old war with Russia.

The official said “the pure math” of Ukraine’s situation now is that it needs more troops in the fight.

“Pure math” also says that following the advice order from Washington will guarantee that there will be no future Ukrainians left to fight for:

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Tukaj ne gre več (zgolj) za hipokrizijo zahodnih medijev, ampak za namensko igranje vloge propagandnega stroja ameriške administracije. Zahodni mediji so (v veliki večini) sramotno trobilo ameriškega vladnega propagandnega stroja. Dva primera spodaj.

1. Reutersovo poročanje o francoskem odzivu na tiralico Mednarodnega sodišča (ICC) za Putinom in Netayahujem: glede Putina poročajo, da (čeprav Rusija ni podpisnica sporazuma o ICC) nihče ne bi smel ubežati pravici, glede Netanyahuja pa, (ker Izrael tudi ni podpisnik sporazuma o ICC) da ima imuniteto pred pregonom s strani ICC.

2. Poročanje BBC o žrtvah letalskih napadov v Ukrajini in Gazi: glede Ukrajine BBC individualizira krivdo ruske strani (in ne pove, ali je šlo za vojaške ali civilne žrtve), glede Gaze pa poroča o neimenovanem, neidentificiranem letalskem napadu, ki je v šoli (!!!) ubil 16 ljudi. Spomnite se člankov z naslovi tipa “krogla zadela otroka v Gazi” (čeprav je, kot so poročali šokirani britanski in ameriški zdravniki, šlo za načrtno streljanje otrok v glavo s strani izraelskih snajperistov), ali “v avtomobilu našli mrtvo deklico v Gazi” (čeprav je šlo za načrtno akcijo izraelskih vojakov, ki so prerešetali civilno vozilo in pobili mamo z otroci).

In zahodni mediji to počnejo sistematično od začetka vojne v Ukrajini in vojne v Gazi. Uredništva dajejo eksplicitna navodila novinarjem (poročila o tem obstajajo za BBC in New York Times), kako naj poročajo o obeh vojnah. Uredništva zahodnih medijev dobivajo že predpripravljene novice in zgodbe, ki jim jih servirajo servisi ameriških obveščevalnih služb. Izraelske oblasti so celo poslale nekaj (deset) svojih agentov, da pod krinko novinarjev pokrivajo določene zgodbe (spomnite se sramotne zgodbe mlade “novinarke” New York Timesa, ki je objavila naslovno zgodbo o domenevnem obglavljanju dojenčkov s strani pripadnikov Hamasa. Zgodba ni imela niti enega dokaza, slikovnega gradiva ali neodvisnega vira, bila je čisti fabrikat Mossada. Po razkritju lažnivosti te zgodbe je ta agentka novinarka nenadoma izginila).

Razumemo lahko, da imajo uredniki ali novinarji zahodnih medijev negativno stališče do Rusije in Putina in pozitivno stališče do Izraela, toda tukaj ne gre za nianse v poročanju zaradi tovrstne drobne pristranosti. Tukaj gre za to, da zahodni mediji služijo kot sramotni propagandni stroj. Goebbels bi bil ponosen nanje.

In dokler bomo imeli take medije, bomo raje na socialnih omrežjih. Dokler bomo imeli take medije, je celo Muskov X primerjalno kvalitetna platforma za informiranje.

Gospodarski zaton in socialni kolaps Evrope je v tem trenutku morda še mogoče preprečiti. Predpogoj pa je, da bi se v Evropo vrnili razum, racionalni pogled na situacijo in posledična vojaška in politična osamosvojitev od ZDA in diverzifikacija gospodarskih odnosov (večja povezava z Evrazijo in državami globalnega juga).

Glenn Diesen:

I had a conversation with Jeffrey Sachs and Alexander Mercouris about the political changes in Europe. The optimism of the European project as a region of peace and prosperity is long gone. The objective had been to resolve conflicts on the continent peacefully and use collective bargaining power to establish greater economic and political independence. Instead, the continent is experiencing war, de-industrialisation, socio-economic and political instability, excessive dependence on the US, and growing irrelevance in the wider world. What went wrong and can the decline be reversed?

The rest of the world adjusts to the emerging multipolarity with a multivector foreign policy by diversifying economic connectivity to improve economic competitiveness and enhance political autonomy. In contrast, the Europeans have subordinated themselves completely to the US and thus suffer from economic decline and political subordination. Declining rationality is also a clear problem as the Europeans pursued policies towards Russia that they knew would put them on a collision course with Russia. Instead of pursuing course correction, the proxy war with Russia increased the security dependence on the US, which enabled Washington to impose bloc discipline. The recovery of Europe requires reversing the militarisation of dividing lines in Europe, and diversifying economic ties to avoid excessive dependence on any one state or region.

Objavljeni Spomini Angele Merkel so in bodo zanimivo branje. Glede na do sedaj objavljene navedbe sta se mi vtisnili v spomin predvsem dve. Prva je na temo nasprotovanja Merklove vključitvi Ukrajine v Nato, ker bi to privedlo do vojne v Ukrajini že bistveno prej. Druga pa se nanaša na ameriško nasprotovanje gradnji plinovoda Severni tok. Ameriška administracija je imela tukaj dva interesa. Prvi je bil, da se Nemčija ne naveže na Rusijo, drugi pa ekonomski interes, ker so želeli delati posel z izvozom ameriškega utekočinjenega plina v Evropo (ki je seveda bistveno dražji od ruskega).

I felt that the United States was mobilizing its formidable economic and financial resources to prevent the business ventures of other countries, even their allies. The United States was chiefly interested in its own economic. The United States was chiefly interested in its own economic interests, as it wanted to export to Europe LNG obtained through fracking.