cuts and links 14/12/2021

  the saker

Here is how the vast majority of Russian analysts and officials see the situation:

• Russia has no need, plan, desire or even interest in invading country 404.
• NS2 is important to Russia, but not crucially so.
• Militarily, Russia can deal with the Ukie military in a few hours without sending a single soldier across the border.
• Russia can also defeat the US on any level of warfare, from local tactical to strategic and nuclear.
• Russia, being a much more free and democratic country than most of the House Negros invited to the Summit, has no interest whatsoever in the West’s verbiage about human rights.
• Russia has no need to subvert or interfere in any of the countries which are so hostile to her simply because these countries are already quite busy committing economic, moral, spiritual, political and cultural suicide all by their own with no need for any further help from Russia
• Russia is quite happy to work with the “bad” Field Negroes to build a multi-polar world composed of truly sovereign countries which agree to base their relations on international law.
• Russia simply does not care what the House Negroes will do or say, simply because they have no agency (except for a few special cases like India).

Then what about the Russian forces near (relatively) the Ukrainian border?

 Germany "new" neoliberal hawks

http://www.defenddemocracy.press/germanys-new-government-is-in-thrall-to-neoliberal-hawks/

Lindner is also the perfect alibi for Scholz’s likely course in government. He will cushion the “worst” in terms of social policy (a higher minimum wage of €12/hour and a stable retirement age), but on crucial points keep the government on the neoliberal track: lifting regulations on working hours, examining the further privatization of the pension system, and prioritizing private rather than public investment. To appoint such a hawkishly neoliberal finance minister at a time when investment in infrastructure and local government is so imperative is a catastrophe for Germans who voted for change in September’s election. 

http://www.defenddemocracy.press/germanys-new-government-is-in-thrall-to-neoliberal-hawks/

Sites and blogs

moon of alabama

Naked Capitalism 

Counterpunch

https://www.euronews.com/

https://independentmediainstitute.org/globetrotter/

https://arstechnica.com/ 14/12

https://www.axios.com/

 http://www.defenddemocracy.press/