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Now Cult-owned Visa and Mastercard suspend operations in Russia after Cult-owned PayPal as Great Cancellation of Putin continues

Card payment giants Visa and Mastercard will suspend operations in Russia, becoming the latest major firms to join the business freeze-out of Moscow over its invasion of Ukraine.
Mastercard said that ‘noting the unprecedented nature of the current conflict and the uncertain economic environment,’ it had ‘decided to suspend our network services in Russia.’
Visa, for its part, said that ‘effective immediately’ it would ‘work with its clients and partners within Russia to cease all Visa transactions over the coming days.’
Visa cards issued by financial institutions outside of Russia will no longer work in Russia, the company said in a statement.
Their announcement came after several major tech companies and retailers shut down their operations in Russia amid a ‘Great Cancellation’ of Vladimir Putin.
Samsung Electronics suspended shipments to Russia over ‘geopolitical developments’, the firm said on Saturday.
The South Korean tech giant is the world’s biggest memory chip maker and the leading smartphone seller in Russia.
‘Due to current geopolitical developments, shipments to Russia have been suspended,’ Samsung said in a statement. ‘We continue to actively monitor this complex situation to determine our next steps.’
Sberbank Rossii PAO, Russia’s largest lender, on Saturday said sanctions announced by Visa Inc and Mastercard Inc would not affect users of the cards it issues in Russia, Tass news agency reported.
Read more: Now Cult-owned Visa and Mastercard suspend operations in Russia after Cult-owned PayPal as Great Cancellation of Putin continues

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Ukraine war: Roman Abramovich sanctioned by UK

Chelsea FC owner Roman Abramovich has been sanctioned by the UK government as part of its response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
He is one of seven oligarchs to be hit with fresh sanctions, including asset freezes and travel bans.
The list also includes billionaires Igor Sechin and Oleg Deripaska, both seen as allies of Vladimir Putin.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson said “there can be no safe havens” for those who have supported the invasion.
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Chelsea FC cannot sell any more tickets for games, its merchandise shop will be closed, and it will be unable to buy or sell players on the transfer market.
The government said it would issue a special licence that allows fixtures to be fulfilled, staff to be paid and existing ticket holders to attend matches.
Ministers have come under pressure to sanction Mr Abramovich, who said he had made the “difficult decision” to sell Chelsea FC earlier this month.
The football club is among the assets frozen as part of the sanctions against Mr Abramovich and its sale has now been stalled.

Read more: Ukraine war: Roman Abramovich sanctioned by UK

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Has the West Got a Leg to Stand On When it Complains of Putin’s Disregard for International Law and Other Moral Norms?

We’re publishing a guest post by Adrian Brown, a former Royal Australian Air Force Legal Officer, about whether it’s reasonable to expect Russia to be constrained by moral norms, particularly in light of the failure of Britain and the United States to always observe those norms themselves when the national interest is at stake.
If you’re anything like me, the sooner you forget the sight of Ukraine asking the UN Security Council, chaired by Russia with its power of veto, to vote for a motion demanding that Russia stop its invasion and withdraw its troops, the better. The UN reported that several of its members described Russia’s veto as “inevitable but deplorable”. It’s hard to imagine anything more enervating.
Russia is in clear breach of Article 2(4) of the UN Charter. Although the ICC has opened a war crimes investigation, Russia has withdrawn from the underlying treaty and is not subject to its jurisdiction. Before you rush to judgement, the United States has withdrawn too. Russia’s indifference to international law is best illustrated by its appeal to Article 51 of the UN Charter which deals with the right to self-defence. Token at best, mockery at worst. We all know that, without an independent enforcement mechanism, treaties are not like contracts in a rule-of-law based jurisdiction, and international law more generally contains a strong voluntary element.
We often hear experts say that Russia only understands hard power. But before we give up on international law, norms, and other constraints, it’s worth asking whether there is any basis for believing that a state is constrained by moral standards and, to the extent that the West has breached those standards itself, we can demand that Russia complies with them.
The sceptical analysis of Russia’s invasion restates the doctrine that foreign policy should only be concerned with a state’s interests and not with morality. It often suggests that Russia’s interests include ensuring that Ukraine does not join NATO. The West’s response to the invasion, driven in part by moral outrage, is naïve, misguided and even irresponsible. Instead, Western states should have dispassionately examined whether confronting Russia served their interests. If it did not, they should have looked the other way.
Read More: Has the West Got a Leg to Stand On When it Complains of Putin’s Disregard for International Law and Other Moral Norms?

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How to Destroy Russia. 2019 Rand Corporation Report: “Overextending and Unbalancing Russia”

Below is the review article of Manlio Dinucci published on May 25, 2019, which provides a summary of a Rand Report entitled: Overextending and Unbalancing Russia.
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Force the adversary to expand recklessly in order to unbalance him, and then destroy him. This is not the description of a judo hold, but a plan against Russia elaborated by the Rand Corporation, the most influential think tank in the USA. With a staff of thousands of experts, Rand presents itself as the world’s most reliable source for Intelligence and political analysis for the leaders of the United States and their allies.
The Rand Corp prides itself on having contributed to the elaboration of the long-term strategy which enabled the United States to win the Cold War, by forcing the Soviet Union to consume its own economic resources in the strategic confrontation.
It is this model which was the inspiration for the new plan, Overextending and Unbalancing Russia, published by Rand [1].
CLICK TO ACCESS the complete document of RAND May 2019
According to their analysts, Russia remains a powerful adversary for the United States in certain fundamental sectors. To handle this opposition, the USA and their allies will have to pursue a joint long-term strategy which exploits Russia’s vulnerabilities. So Rand analyses the various means with which to unbalance Russia, indicating for each the probabilities of success, the benefits, the cost, and the risks for the USA.
Rand analysts estimate that Russia’s greatest vulnerability is that of its economy, due to its heavy dependency on oil and gas exports. The income from these exports can be reduced by strengthening sanctions and increasing the energy exports of the United States. The goal is to oblige Europe to diminish its importation of Russian natural gas, and replace it by liquefied natural gas transported by sea from other countries.
Another way of destabilising the Russian economy in the long run is to encourage the emigration of qualified personnel, particularly young Russians with a high level of education.
In the ideological and information sectors, it would be necessary to encourage internal contestation and at the same time, to undermine Russia’s image on the exterior, by excluding it from international forums and boycotting the international sporting events that it organises.
In the geopolitical sector, arming Ukraine would enable the USA to exploit the central point of Russia’s exterior vulnerability, but this would have to be carefully calculated in order to hold Russia under pressure without slipping into a major conflict, which it would win.
In the military sector, the USA could enjoy high benefits, with low costs and risks, by increasing the number of land-based troops from the NATO countries working in an anti-Russian function.
Read more: How to Destroy Russia. 2019 Rand Corporation Report: “Overextending and Unbalancing Russia”

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Ukraine – Geopolitical Pivot

Russia’s recent invasion of Ukraine is yet another exposure of the centuries-old struggle for domination over Central and Eastern Europe. Germany and Russia were expanding into these fertile lands for centuries, with support of another hidden power – the City of London.
To understand the network of core alliances and how and why the City of London merchant elites had been financing Germany and Russia (Imperial, Soviet and post-Soviet Russia), it is necessary to look into history. The lack of accountability of the financial and corporate elites of the City of London (and City’s American branch Washington D.C.) which had been financing regime leaders and military-industrial complexes in the past century, especially before World War II, had once again created conditions for a war in Europe. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and subsequent sanctioning of Russia by the world community is now steadily revealing this hidden network of business alliances that emboldened Vladimir Putin to threaten the security and welfare of European nations, in particular those of Central and Eastern Europe.
British MP and geographer, Halford J. Mackinder, stated in his 1904 famous publication “The Geographical Pivot of History” that control of Eastern Europe was critical for the “Heartland” of “World-Island”. In 1915, German liberal politician, Friedrich Naumann, came up with a concept of Mitteleuropa, that was meant to be colonial territory of the German Reich. Decades later, sovietologist and geostrategist, Zbigniew Brzezinski, once a National Security Adviser to US President Jimmy Carter, stated in his 1997 book – The Grand Chessboard – that Ukraine is “geopolitical pivot” and that “without Ukraine, Russia ceases to be a Eurasian Empire”. All these geopolitical concepts pointed to Ukraine and other countries in Central and Eastern Europe as pivotal in the games of Great Powers and those who are propping them behind the scenes…
Read more: Ukraine – Geopolitical Pivot

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Demonisation of Russia fails - more nations now pro-Russia, anti-USA

 G20 states revolt against US pressure – Bloomberg

Half of the G20 nations have not supported the sanctions …

The US-led drive to isolate Russia through sanctions has not succeeded, as half the countries in the Group of Twenty leading global economies refused to sign on, Bloomberg reported on Friday.

According to the publication, senior officials from leading Western nations are surprised by the lack of support within the wider G20, despite their efforts to make the case for restrictions against Russia.


Argentina, Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, and Turkey have not joined the sanctions that were adopted by the US, UK, EU, and their allies Australia, Canada, Japan, and South Korea. Some nations, like China and South Africa, have openly criticized the restrictions. The G20 nations account for around 85% of global economic output.

READ MORE: Anti-Russian sanctions endanger global food security – Moscow

According to Bloomberg, the reasons for the lack of support include strong trade ties, historical affinities to Moscow, and a distrust of former colonial powers.
For more stories on economy & finance visit RT's business section

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On the nature of Russia’s military campaign in Ukraine

 - analysis of Russian Military Strategy

Senior US Marine Corps Officer Expresses Admiration for the ‘Revolutionary’ Way in Which Russia Has Fought Its War in Ukraine 

Ordinary people in the West reading and listening to the mainstream media have been presented with a series of narratives regarding the war in Ukraine.  These are the key points upheld by the media:

• Apparently, Russia has been losing its war in Ukraine since the first days of the conflict.  The evidence to support this is the fact that Russia apparently failed to conquer Kiev and other northern cities in the first few weeks4 of the conflict.  
  
  
• During its failed attempt to conquer these cities, Russian troops have committed numerous war crimes due to the artillery and missile attacks that they have launched on civilian infrastructure and residential areas. 
  
  
• To compound matters, Russia’s armed forces have suffered staggering losses, high desertion rates and its generals are a set of bungling fools who could not organise a booze up in a brewery. 
  
  
• Apparently, it is only a matter of time before the evil Russian hordes are pushed back across the border with their tails between their legs due to a combination of Ukrainian bravery and Western weaponry. 
  

The picture that has been presented of the war in Ukraine is completely at odds with the reality of the situation on the ground.  Surprisingly, information that supports this assertion, which totally undermines the Western media narratives regarding the war, is provided by an article in the August edition of the United States Marine Corps Gazette...


https://nexusnewsfeed.com/article/geopol...n-ukraine/

https://www.globalresearch.ca/senior-us-...ne/5789634

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"The end goal was war with Russia" - Thierry Baudet in Dutch Parliament

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tjnpstu8JKM

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The infamous Zionist Chabad-Lubavitch cult that features some of the most powerful, wealthy Jewish oligarchs around the world, including ties to both Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin.
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On 6 May 2022, the father and mother of Zelenskyy received Israeli citizenship.
They live in the family house of Ukrainian oligarch Igor Kolomoisky

In September 2007, Igor Kolomoisky acquired a 3% stake (worth $110 million) and a seat on the board of directors of Central European Media Enterprises that was founded and chaired by Ronald Lauder, Donald Trump’s buddy and President of the World Jewish Congress.

https://forums.richieallen.co.uk/showthr...9#pid17359

On 19 April 2016, Ronald Lauder praised the Russian crackdown of anti-Semitism and shook the hands of Chabad buddy Vladimir Putin at the Kremlin in Moscow.


Lubavitcher Roman Abramovich was reportedly the first person to recommend to Yeltsin to choose Putin as his successor.
In 1999, Putin enlisted the oligarchs Lev Leviev and Roman Abramovich, to create the Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia under the leadership of Chabad rabbi Berel Lazar. Leviev and Abramovich would become Chabad’s biggest patrons worldwide.

In December 2007, Trump hosted the wedding of Sapir’s daughter, Zina, and Leviev’s right-hand man, Rosen, at Mar-a-Lago. A few months later, Leviev met Trump to discuss potential deals in Moscow. Trump has called Sapir “a great friend”.
In June 2008, Zina Sapir and Rosen held a bris for their newborn son. Trump and Jared Kushner attended the bris.

Lubavitcher Kushner married Ivanka Trump and in 2015 bought the old New York Times building on West 43rd Street from Leviev for $295 million.
Ivanka and Jared also formed a close relationship with Abramovich’s ex-wife, Dasha Zhukova.
Ivanka and Jared, attend the worshipping ceremonies at a Chabad synagogue in Washington.

Bayrock-Sapir, (then) led by Soviet émigrés Tevfik Arif, Felix Sater and Tamir Sapir, are all 3 connected to Chabad.
Sater and another Bayrock employee, Daniel Ridloff, who at one time both worked for the Trump Organization, belong to the Port Washington Chabad house. Sater sits on the boards of numerous Chabad entities in the US and abroad.

If I understand correctly, all of the Jews on (the right of) this photo are Lubavitchers, even Ivanka has become a Jew and joined the Chabad after marrying Jared Kushner.
See Eric Trump, Tevfik Arif, Donald Trump Jr., Ivanka Trump, Donald Trump, Tamir Sapir, Alex Sapir, Julius Schwarz and Zina Sapir at Trump Soho Construction Site, 19 September 2007.


The Kazakh born Tevfik Arif (Tofic Arifov) is now a Turkish citizen. Arif was closely associated with the Chabad-Lubavitch Kazakh trio - Alexander Mashkevitch, Patokh Chodiev and Alijan Ibragimov.
Mashkevitch is the most interesting of this trio: a friend of long-time former Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev a member of the World Jewish Congress, president of metal and mining Eurasian National Resources Corporation (ENRC), and a strategic partner of Bayrock.

See from left to right: Musa Bazhaev, Alexander Mashkevich, and Tevfik Arif.


On 28 September 2010, Arif was arrested by the Turkish police for running a prostitution ring on the Savarona luxury yacht.
On board were Mashkevitch, Chodiev, Ibragimov, and several high ranking Kazakh officials, including the Kazakh-American Telman Ismailov, senior aide to the Kazakh PM.
Also on board the Savarona was Musa Bazhaev, head of Alliance Group in Russia. Bazhaev inherited the Alliance Group in 2000, after the death of his brother Zia (son-in-law of Nazarbayev).

See Musa Bazhaev with Putin.


The Trump-Giuliani associated Chabad-Lubavitcher Mikhail Fridman is best known for controlling the Alfa Group (including the Alfa Bank that communicated with the Trump Organization and the Spectrum Health of the DeVos family during the 2016 election campaign).
Mikhail Fridman is also asociated with Soviet-born billionaires Len Blavatnik (associated with Steve Mnuchin) and Viktor Vekselberg are also both Chabad-Lubavitchers.

In late January 2017, Sater met Trump’s former lawyer, Michael Cohen, to discuss a Ukraine peace deal to end US sanctions on Russia. Cohen then delivered this to Michael Flynn at the White House. Cohen himself is a regular presence at the Midtown Chabad on Fifth Avenue: https://www.lawfulpath.com/forum/viewtop...4372#p4372


Here's an overview of the Zionist "Russiagate" (or Chabadgate?), with the non-Jews in Italics...

https://archive.ph/Ft5rk