by Gilbert Doctorow

Rigor mortis on the Western front: a brief comment on the EU Parliament elections

The results of the parliamentary elections across the 27 member states of the European Union have been published this morning. They are not complete and final, but they are highly indicative of how it all ends.

The front-page diagram of The Financial Times comparing the outgoing and incoming party affiliations of the deputies tells it all. Though the deck chairs on the Titanic have been rearranged, though the Greens have had losses, the Renew grouping of Macron and Belgium’s Guy Verhofstadt have had losses, the EPP had gains and the net result appears to be that the Center Right-Left coalition that held the European Parliament in its firm grip these past 5 years will continue to have a voting majority of more than 400 seats. This means that barring some accident, Ursula von der Leyen will be reelected and the awful, self-destructive, even suicidal policies of the EU with respect to Russia will continue for the coming 5 years, if there is no Continent-wide war as a result that wipes Europe off the face of the earth.

Here in Belgium, the good news comes from the north of the country. The anti-status quo Flemish parties N-VA and Vlaams Belang came in first and second, garnering almost a third of the seats in the Chamber of Representatives. My estimation of the results comes from applying the old Russian Marxist analytic tool: the worse, the better. The comfy life of our most prominent politicians is coming to an end. Prime Minister De Croo was compelled to resign when his party took a beating. Now he can resume the search for his next sinecure that began one week ago when he called upon Joe Biden in the White House. If only this discomfiture extends to the other incompetent lackeys of Washington that the MR Party has sent to the European Institutions, Didier Reynders on the Commission and Charles Michel at the Council, then I will break out the champagne.

by Sergey Markov

European Parliament. The elections end today. According to forecasts, the same center-right coalition will receive a majority in the European Parliament. And the head of the European Commission will remain the same Ursula von der Leyen.

The unsystematic right will improve its results. But these non-systemic rightists are becoming more and more systemic. In particular, the powerful National Rally in France, led by Marine Le Pen, switched to a pro-American and anti-Russian position.

The main right-wing ID group – Identity and Democracy – has split. Another powerful party, Alternativ für Germany, was excluded from it on the initiative of Marine Le Pen.

The AfD is still trying to be against the war in Ukraine and for peace. And Marine Le Pen became completely in favor of the war against Russia. In this way, she is trying to earn permission to win future presidential elections from the ruling oligarchy.

by Germán Gorraiz Lopez

The outbreak of the Ukrainian conflict revealed the worrying servility of Western countries, which translated into the loss of decision-making power of European institutions and their total subordination to the geopolitical dictates of the United States, leaving France as an irrelevant power in the new cartography. geopolitics of the Cold War 2.0.

However, Macron’s thinking would be rigid and incorrigible since it does not take into account the contrary reasons and only collects data or signs that confirm the prejudice to turn it into conviction, so everything indicates that Macron would be determined to lead Europe by personally committing himself to unwavering support for the Ukrainian people and forcing NATO into open conflict with Putin’s Russia.

Thus, as the US is immersed in the electoral campaign for the November Presidential elections, France, Poland and the United Kingdom would be the trident chosen by the globalists to implode the Ukrainian front next summer and provoke the subsequent entry of NATO into an open conflict with the Russia of a Putin reelected until 2030.

NATO entry into the Ukrainian war?

The Ukrainian conflict would have meant the return to the Cold War between Russia and the United States and the return to the Doctrine of Containment, the bases of which were exposed by George F. Kennan in his essay “The Sources of Soviet Behavior”, published in Foreign magazine. Affairs in 1947 and whose main ideas are summarized in the quote “Soviet power is impervious to the logic of reason but very sensitive to the logic of force.”

Thus, the Polish president, Andrzej Duda, stated that his country is “willing to accept nuclear weapons” from allied countries on its territory, which has received a harsh and forceful response from Moscow when it warned that “the placement of this type of weaponry in Poland will make this country a priority objective in Russian military planning.

Likewise, in a statement from the Russian Foreign Ministry, Russia has warned that the “arrival of the F-16 fighters in Ukraine will be seen as carriers of nuclear weapons and we will consider this step by the US and NATO as a deliberate provocation,” while at the same time which accuses the West of openly supporting Ukraine’s sabotage actions in Russian territory and of supplying Kiev with British and French long-range missiles as well as the new American ATACMS, which can reach Russian territory.

Within the action-reaction dynamic typical of the new Cold War 2.0 scenario, Putin ordered his country’s Armed Forces to carry out maneuvers with tactical nuclear weapons on the southern border with Ukraine. Likewise, Putin warned that “the use of weapons by Ukraine against Russian territory could lead to very serious problems” and in response, “Moscow could provide long-range weapons to third parties to attack Western targets.”

Ignoring these warnings, in a televised interview with the France 2 and TF1 channels, Macron announced that France “will provide Ukraine with Mirage 2000-5 fighters, and will train pilots and a brigade of 4,500 Ukrainian soldiers whom it will equip, train and will lend weapons.” He also reiterated that “Ukraine should be allowed to use weapons provided by its Western allies to attack Russian military targets and neutralize the points from which the country is being attacked.”
Paris’ current priority, according to its Defense Minister, Sebastian Lecornu, would be to supply Zelensky with high-tech precision-guided AASM bombs and advanced artillery pieces as well as the production of 40 units of France’s powerful SCALP cruise missile.

Macron and the nuclear saber

Macron, established as “a champion of the defense of Western values ​​against Russian barbarism”, would be the only European leader willing to use the “nuclear saber” in the face of Putin’s threats to “use nuclear force in the event of being endangering the integrity of Russia. Although responsibility for the armed forces is shared by the President and the Prime Minister according to the 1958 French Constitution, a 1962 decree only attributes to the President the ability to authorize the use of nuclear weapons.

Let us remember that the “Force de Frappe” was born in 1960 as a consequence of the proclamation of the Fifth French Republic by General De Gaulle. and it was conceived as one of the key elements of the country’s economic, diplomatic and military independence from the two great powers in conflict worldwide (the US and the USSR).

Under Sarkozy, the French atomic arsenal was reduced to the current 290 nuclear warheads and bases part of its power on the use of ballistic nuclear submarines (SLBM), the M51 missile being the longest range with a range of 9 km and also including bombers. land and maritime missiles with medium-range, high-speed Air-Sol Moyenne Portée (ASMP) nuclear cruise missiles. In this context, the French Minister of Defense, Sébastien Lecornu, confirmed that “a first test shot of a new short- and medium-range supersonic air-to-ground nuclear missile” known as ASMPA-R had been successfully launched from an aircraft. Rafale of the Strategic Air Forces (FAE) over French territory and has a range of 500 kilometers and can transport nuclear charges of 300 kilotons.

Towards a low intensity nuclear war?

Given that both Macron and Putin are suffering from the so-called Pontius syndrome, which consists of “a distortion in the perception of danger that would have its origin in the excess of adrenaline of the affected person”, neither of them will be deterred by the opposite. , so the conflict could culminate in a low-intensity nuclear war through the use of tactical nuclear weapons.

“Non-strategic” nuclear weapons, also known as “tactical nuclear weapons”, according to the Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI) and of which Russia would have about 1,800 warheads and NATO would have 250 warheads deployed in Europe, would be warheads designed to used on a limited battlefield, for example to destroy a tank column or an aircraft carrier battle group if used at sea, which is why they are also known as “low performance”.

However, according to the Union of Concerned Scientists, a Princeton University simulation of a US-Russia conflict that begins with the use of a tactical nuclear weapon predicts “a rapid escalation that would leave more than 90 millions of dead and injured”, with which the beginning of a low-intensity nuclear conflict could degenerate into a large-scale nuclear conflagration with disastrous results for Humanity.

via Impact News

What are the Chances of an Attack on the U.S. Mainland?

At this point, almost zero, in my opinion. And the biggest reason is that until our financial system crashes and the U.S. can no longer pay their financial obligations, all these countries will continue to prosper from doing business with the U.S.

And while we have sanctions in place against Russia, they have been largely symbolic, and they have further driven Russia to do more business with China, where most of their oil is exported to, for example.

China and the U.S are the largest economies in the world, and they are intertwined so closely, that any talk about a hot war between China and the U.S. will almost always just be rhetoric, as the real war between the two countries is an economic war because both countries depend upon each other so intrinsically, where China has a huge advantage when it comes to manufacturing and labor, while the U.S. has remained the stronger nation due solely its financial system and the use of the U.S. dollar as the world’s reserve currency, which is quickly coming to an end.

Last year (2023) we saw many of America’s billionaires go to China to court President Xi’s favor, and JP Morgan Chase bank CEO Jamie Dimon admitted that it would take at least a decade for the U.S. to “decouple” from China and our dependency on China’s exports to the U.S.

So if there is some kind of “attack” on U.S. soil seen anytime soon, please understand that the odds are greatly in favor of it being a “false flag” attack by our own government on its own citizens, but framed to be an attack by one of our alleged enemies, such as Russia, China, or Iran.

As of today, none of these countries would benefit from a direct attack on U.S. soil, but would suffer great losses economically themselves.

But with more and more banks facing failures in the U.S. along with the development of the BRICs alliance and their efforts to move away from the U.S. dollar, at some point American shareholders are just going to blow up the entire financial system themselves, taking everyone else down with them, and then try to “build back better” according to the UN Climate Change agenda.

The Emerging “Golden Triangle” – Iran, Russia, China

Sam Parker, writing for Behind the News Network, has just published a 3-part series titled: The Covert War between Iran & Israel.

He covers a lot of history, from a non-western and pro-Islamic perspective, about the relations between Israel, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Russia and China.

He refers to Iran, Russia, and China as the emerging “Golden Triangle in Eurasia“.

The developing economic, political and military links binding Iran, China and Russia-the emerging Golden Triangle in Eurasia, are continuing to deepen in significant areas. At present, the dynamic of the past several years of closer cooperation by the three pivotal states of the Eurasian Heartland is gaining strategic momentum.

In brief, we have a deepening of military defense links between the three points of the emerging Eurasian Triangle. This will have huge consequences, not merely for stabilization of Syria and Iraq in the Middle East. It will also give a major boost to the emerging economic links between the three great powers of the Eurasian Heartland.

Parker thinks that Mohammed bin Salman (MBS), the Crown Prince and Prime Minister of Saudi Arabia, is now being educated on geopolitcal matters by Putin, since 2017.

In 2017, with the formation of OPEC+, Putin went on a charm offensive with MBS. One of the results of this was a change in mentors for MBS, from MBZ of Abu Dhabi to Putin in Moscow.

MBS got educated real fast on the global geopolitical equation, and realized the long-term danger that a rift between Iran and the Gulf Arabs posed to the region.

MBS wants to develop his nation, not wage war on his neighbors. The 7 year long Yemen war cost Abu Dhabi and Riyadh some $500 billion.

This was money better spent at home. Many secret meetings were conducted between Teheran/Moscow, Riyadh/Moscow and Moscow/Beijing.

The culmination of these meeting was a truce signed between Iran and Saudi Arabia, in March 2023, and brokered by China.

This, of course, infuriated Israel and the US. There would be no more chance to play the “divide-and-rule” game in order to have an excuse to stay in the region anymore.

Putin told MBS that the US is looking for the 1st chance to remove MBS from equation, so keep quiet and continue with the statement to the Israelis, that, “you will sign the Abrahamic Accords, PROVIDED Palestine can have a state”.

And, to the Americans: “Yes, I will sign the Abrahamic Accords, but provide me with nuclear arms and a civilian nuclear program”.

Many critics in the Muslim/Arab world are making a noise about the help provided by Saudi Arabia to Israel, in terms of allowing a “land bridge” from Dubai to Israel, via Saudi Arabia and Jordan.

Most of these do not understand geopolitics. They see the surface picture only.

What they don’t realize is that MBS, as per Putin’s guidance, is playing it very carefully, by not appearing to be hostile to Israel or America.

With these assurances given to both Israel and the US, MBS has stumped them. MBS is NOT saying no, but with these, all the 3 musketeers (Iran, Russia, China) know full well that these 2 families (Rothschilds and Rockefellers) will not accept these terms. That leaves MBS safe for the moment.

The next issue is BRICS. As of writing (April 20th), MBS has not signed the papers officially making Saudi Arabia a member of BRICS.

I personally believe that he is waiting for the right time, under Putin’s suggestion.

By the actions of Hamas, the US, Israel and the Rothschild’s EU will get even more stretched militarily, economically and financially.

The aim of these 3 is to weaken the 2 networks over time, and eventually box them into a corner.

They either fight or withdraw from the Middle East. If they fight, they will lose. If they don’t fight, they will lose. If they withdraw, they will lose. And, when any of these options take place, then America’s next step would be to initiate the “Fortress America” plan; followed by the ICE NINE scenario and implementation of the CBDC nightmare.(Source.)

Ever since I reported in April that there was no sign that Israel ever retaliated back on Iran after Iran shot more than 300 missiles and drones into Israel, the first time in history that Iran has ever attacked Israel, as Israel and Iran have a long history of being allies, even as recent as the 198os under Reagan during the Iraq – Iran war when Israel helped Iran by supplying them weapons, I have been looking for a credible explanation as to why Israel never struck back after this major attack by Iran.

They were clearly poised to do so, until the U.S. had Joe Biden call Netanyahu and told him to stand down.

Parker has given the most plausible reason why Israel backed down that I have read so far (although I don’t agree with every single point.)

Read this very carefully, because if this (or most of it) is true, World War 3 is all but over already.

Iran Sends a Message: The Straw that Broke the Camel’s Back

On 1 April 2024, Israel’s air strike on an Iranian consulate building in the Syrian capital Damascus killed an important senior commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), Brig Gen Mohammad Reza Zahedi, along with other IRGC commanders, who were meeting to co-ordinate the next phase in the Axis of resistance’s attacks on Israel.

Over the next two weeks, many people in Israel began panic-buying groceries and essentials- all in fear of an Iranian retaliation! The holy month of Ramadan ended on Wednesday 10th April. The next day, Iran sent a message to Israel via the Turks and Saudis that they are going to strike Israel.

Panic ensued.

A little over 48 hours before Iran’s aerial message to Israel across the skies of West Asia, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov confirmed, on the record, what so far had been, at best, hush-hush diplomatic talk: The Russian side kept in contact with Iranian partners on the situation in the Middle East after the Israeli strike on the Iranian consulate in Syria.

Here, concisely, we had Russia’s top diplomatic coordinator with BRICS – in the year of the multipolar organization’s Russian presidency – indirectly messaging that Russia has Iran’s back.

Iran, it should be noted, just became a full-fledged BRICS+ member in January.

Iran’s aerial message this weekend confirmed this in practice: their missile guidance systems used the Chinese Beidou satellite navigation system as well as the Russian GLONASS system.

This is Russia–China Intel leading from behind and a graphic example of BRICS+ on the move.

Ryabkov’s “we stay in constant touch” plus the satellite navigation Intel confirms the deeply interlocked cooperation between the Russia–China strategic partnership and their mutual strategic partner Iran.

Based on vast experience in Ukraine, Moscow knew that the biblical psychopathic genocidal entity would keep escalating if Iran only continued to exercise “strategic patience.”

The morphing of “strategic patience” into a new strategic balance had to take some time – including high-level exchanges with the Russian side.

And don’t forget the Strait of Hormuz

Tehran did manage to upend the massive western psychological operations aimed at pushing it into a strategic misstep. Iran started with a misdirecting masterstroke.

As US–Israeli fear porn went off the charts, fueled by dodgy western “intel,” the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) made a quick sideways move, seizing an Israeli-owned container ship near the Strait of Hormuz.

That was an eminently elegant manoeuvre – reminding the collective west of Tehran’s hold on the Strait of Hormuz, a fact immeasurably more dangerous to the whole western economic house of cards than any limited strike on their “aircraft carrier” in the Middle East. That did happen anyway.

Iran Breaches Anglo-Zionist Defenses in Historic Attack: A Breakdown

Unlike that ‘moral’ army specialized in killing women, children, and the elderly and bombing hospitals, mosques, schools, universities, and humanitarian convoys, the Iranian attack targeted key Israeli military sites such as the Nevatim and Ramon airbases in the Negev and an intel center in the occupied Golan Heights – the three centers used by Tel Aviv in its strike on Iran’s Damascus consulate.

This was a highly choreographed show.

Multiple early warning signs gifted Tel Aviv with plenty of time to profit from US Intel and evacuate fighter jets and personnel, which was duly followed by a plethora of US military radars coordinating the defense strategy.

It was American firepower that smashed the bulk of what may have been a swarm of 185 Shahed-136 drones – using everything from ship-mounted air defense to fighter jets. The rest was shot down over Jordan by The Little King’s military – the Arab street will never forget his treachery – and then by dozens of Israeli jets.

Israel’s defenses were de facto saturated by the suicide drone-ballistic missile combo. On the ballistic missile front, several pierced the dense maze of Israel’s air defenses, with Israel officially claiming nine successful hits – interestingly enough, all of them hitting super relevant military targets.

Look at the targets that were struck.

Ramon has been badly hit. Nevatim was hit by more than 7 missiles. Air Force Intelligence HQ completely leveled. Other strikes on air defence installations obviously not close to population centres and out of view but I’m sure sat Intel will show extent of damage.And another:

1. Nevatim Airbasein the south of occupied Palestine- this is the base that the F-35’s took off from. It is the most highly defended base in the world. Very heavily protected by a vast array of anti-missile defense systems, all of which are tied connected to the US SatCom system. Reports say that as many as a 100 US officers were manning these complex systems, and they suffered huge losses in this Iranian hit. Of course, neither Israel nor the US will confirm any of this. The funny thing is that we hardly ever hear of any Israeli or American soldiers being killed on the battle field. Rather, they are “wounded”. What else can one accept from the Empire of Lies?

• Ramon Airbasein the south of occupied Palestine-this is the headquarters of the Israeli Air-Force Intelligence. This is the site where the attack on the consulate was planned. This building and its occupants was totally destroyed. Much valuable equipment was destroyed. There have been reports that many senior intelligence officers – reports say about 20- were also killed in this attack.

• The Israeli top-secret intelligence-spy base in Jabal al-Sheikh (Mount Hermon) in the north of the occupied Golan. Israel captured this site from the Syrians in the June 1967 War. In the 1973 October War, a fierce battle was fought here, when Syria managed to re-take this site. Israel counter-attacked and managed to take it back. Since then, Israel has fortified this site. This site is crucial for either side. For Syria, this site could allow them to overlook the entire Galilee and northern Israel. Conversely, with this site in Israel’s control, Israel can see the entire southern region of Syria, and was able to monitor Damascus very closely, in terms of communications. That’s how they were able to know that a meeting was taking place in the Iranian consulate held by the senior-most commanders of the IRGC, who were meeting to take the next steps in the attacks on Israel. It should be noted that the rest of the explosions or hits in other areas of the occupied territories are related to the confrontation of the Israeli air defense systems with the projectiles in the sky or the falling of the wreckage of the interceptor missiles or the wreckage of Iranian missiles.

“Hiroshima and Nagasaki were 20 kilotons and our tactical nuclear weapons are 70 kilotons.

Let’s treat this topic professionally, everyone thinks we’re not going to use them, but we have a nuclear doctrine”

The Russian president explains the possible usage of nukes …

 No word about the strategic nuclear forces.

Germany needs to prepare for war with Russia in the coming years, said German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius.

“Germany needs to prepare for war by 2029,” said the German official. “We must clearly understand: a Russian victory would cost us more than the current support for Ukraine,” he added.

According to Pistorius, the restoration of compulsory military service is becoming urgent for the country.