Ser ut som Putin&co gjør alt for å ødelegge Russland. Man er sin egens verste venn
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Norges skiforbund ber russerne holde seg hjemme
Norges skiforbund vil ikke ha russisk deltakelse i verdenscuprenn i Norge.
– Skistyret har i dag besluttet at Norges Skiforbund ikke ønsker Russlands, eller russiske utøveres, deltagelse på de forestående verdenscuprennene og verdensmesterskap i Norge slik situasjonen er nå, sier skipresident Erik Røste i en pressemelding som ble sendt ut lørdag formiddag.
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Begynner dessverre å bli store tap av liv.
En sverm av helikopter.
Er det noen som tror (vestens) propaganda (PR) har blitt dårligere siste 100 år?
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Hva er det du egentlig ønsker å fortelle oss?
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At det nok ligger mer bak enn det vi blir fortalt gjennom media, kort og enkelt.
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Noe håndfast, eller? Noen spekulasjoner?
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Oppfatter at det er mer for å balansere bildet til Russlands fordel. Tidspunktet for det er malplassert.
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Frankrike har stanset fraktskip på vei til Russland.
Frankrike har avskåret et fraktskip i kanalen utenfor Boulogne-sur-Mer som var på vei til St. Petersburg i Russland, melder franske myndigheter.
Fraktskipet lastet med biler ble stanset på bakgrunn av EU-sanksjonene mot Russland, opplyser havnemyndighetene til AFP.
Det var den russisk-flaggede båten Baltic Leader som ble eskortert til havna i Boulogne-sur-Mer av franske styrker.
Båten mistenkes å tilhøre et selskap som er rammet av EUs sanksjoner mot Russland, heter det.
E24
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Russland truer med og nasjonalisere alle vestlige bedrifter i Russlan som følge av vestlige sanksjoner.Hva snakker vi om da vil skje i markedet ?
Da skyter Russland seg selv i foten med bazooka!
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Vent noen år så får vi vite mer om årsaken til at denne konflikten har skjedd. Skulle aldri ha startet denne krigen. Nå er det forferdelig at det foregår gatekamper og det går utover sivile.
Hvis det fortsatt er åpent for refleksjon. Veldig anbefalt langlesning fra en av verdens mest meritterte krigs-/utenriksjournalister og forfattere:
RUSSIA, UKRAINE AND THE CHRONICLE OF A WAR FORETOLD
After the fall of the Soviet Union, there was a near-universal understanding among political leaders that NATO expansion would be a foolish provocation against Russia. How naive we were to think the military-industrial complex would allow such sanity to prevail.
PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY: I was in Eastern Europe in 1989, reporting on the revolutions that overthrew the ossified communist dictatorships that led to the collapse of the Soviet Union. It was a time of hope. NATO, with the breakup of the Soviet empire, became obsolete. President Mikhail Gorbachev reached out to Washington and Europe to build a new security pact that would include Russia. Secretary of State James Baker in the Reagan administration, along with the West German Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher, assured the Soviet leader that if Germany was unified NATO would not be extended beyond the new borders. The commitment not to expand NATO, also made by Great Britain and France, appeared to herald a new global order. We saw the peace dividend dangled before us, the promise that the massive expenditures on weapons that characterized the Cold War would be converted into expenditures on social programs and infrastructures that had long been neglected to feed the insatiable appetite of the military.
There was a near universal understanding among diplomats and political leaders at the time that any attempt to expand NATO was foolish, an unwarranted provocation against Russia that would obliterate the ties and bonds that happily emerged at the end of the Cold War.
How naive we were. The war industry did not intend to shrink its power or its profits. It set out almost immediately to recruit the former Communist Bloc countries into the European Union and NATO. Countries that joined NATO, which now include Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Albania, Croatia, Montenegro, and North Macedonia were forced to reconfigure their militaries, often through hefty loans, to become compatible with NATO military hardware.
There would be no peace dividend. The expansion of NATO swiftly became a multi-billion-dollar bonanza for the corporations that had profited from the Cold War. (Poland, for example, just agreed to spend $ 6 billion on M1 Abrams tanks and other U.S. military equipment.) If Russia would not acquiesce to again being the enemy, then Russia would be pressured into becoming the enemy. And here we are. On the brink of another Cold War, one from which only the war industry will profit while, as W. H. Auden wrote, the little children die in the streets.
The consequences of pushing NATO up to the borders with Russia — there is now a NATO missile base in Poland 100 miles from the Russian border — were well known to policy makers. Yet they did it anyway. It made no geopolitical sense. But it made commercial sense. War, after all, is a business, a very lucrative one. It is why we spent two decades in Afghanistan although there was near universal consensus after a few years of fruitless fighting that we had waded into a quagmire we could never win.
In a classified diplomatic cable obtained and released by WikiLeaks dated February 1, 2008, written from Moscow, and addressed to the Joint Chiefs of Staff, NATO-European Union Cooperative, National Security Council, Russia Moscow Political Collective, Secretary of Defense, and Secretary of State, there was an unequivocal understanding that expanding NATO risked an eventual conflict with Russia, especially over Ukraine.
“Not only does Russia perceive encirclement [by NATO], and efforts to undermine Russia’s influence in the region, but it also fears unpredictable and uncontrolled consequences which would seriously affect Russian security interests,” the cable reads.
"Experts tell us that Russia is particularly worried that the strong divisions in Ukraine over NATO membership, with much of the ethnic-Russian community against membership, could lead to a major split, involving violence or at worst, civil war. In that eventuality, Russia would have to decide whether to intervene; a decision Russia does not want to have to face. . . . Dmitri Trenin, Deputy Director of the Carnegie Moscow Center, expressed concern that Ukraine was, in the long-term, the most potentially destabilizing factor in U.S.-Russian relations, given the level of emotion and neuralgia triggered by its quest for NATO membership . . . Because membership remained divisive in Ukrainian domestic politics, it created an opening for Russian intervention. Trenin expressed concern that elements within the Russian establishment would be encouraged to meddle, stimulating U.S. overt encouragement of opposing political forces, and leaving the U.S. and Russia in a classic confrontational posture.”
The Obama administration, not wanting to further inflame tensions with Russia, blocked arms sales to Kiev. But this act of prudence was abandoned by the Trump and Biden administrations. Weapons from the U.S. and Great Britain are pouring into Ukraine, part of the $1.5 billion in promised military aid. The equipment includes hundreds of sophisticated Javelins and NLAW anti-tank weapons despite repeated protests by Moscow.
The United States and its NATO allies have no intention of sending troops to Ukraine. Rather, they will flood the country with weapons, which is what it did in the 2008 conflict between Russia and Georgia.
The conflict in Ukraine echoes the novel “Chronicle of a Death Foretold” by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. In the novel, it is acknowledged by the narrator that “there had never been a death more foretold” and yet no one was able or willing to stop it. All of us who reported from Eastern Europe in 1989 knew the consequences of provoking Russia, and yet few have raised their voices to halt the madness. The methodical steps towards war took on a life of their own, moving us like sleepwalkers towards disaster.
Once NATO expanded into Eastern Europe, the Clinton administration promised Moscow that NATO combat troops would not be stationed in Eastern Europe, the defining issue of the 1997 NATO-Russia Founding Act on Mutual Relations. This promise again turned out to be a lie. Then in 2014, the U.S. backed a coup against Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych who sought to build an economic alliance with Russia rather than the European Union. Of course, once integrated into the European Union, as seen in the rest of Eastern Europe, the next step is integration into NATO. Russia, spooked by the coup, alarmed at the overtures by the EU and NATO, then annexed Crimea, largely populated by Russian speakers. And the death spiral that led us to the conflict currently underway in Ukraine became unstoppable.
The war state needs enemies to sustain itself. When an enemy can’t be found, an enemy is manufactured. Putin has become, in the words of Senator Angus King, the new Hitler, out to grab Ukraine and the rest of Eastern Europe. The full-throated cries for war, echoed shamelessly by the press, are justified by draining the conflict of historical context, by elevating ourselves as the saviors and whoever we oppose, from Saddam Hussein to Putin, as the new Nazi leader.
I don’t know where this will end up. We must remember, as Putin reminded us, that Russia is a nuclear power. We must remember that once you open the Pandora’s box of war it unleashes dark and murderous forces no one can control. I know this from personal experience. The match has been lit. The tragedy is that there was never any dispute about how the conflagration would start.
Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist who was a foreign correspondent for fifteen years for The New York Times, where he served as the Middle East Bureau Chief and Balkan Bureau Chief for the paper. He previously worked overseas for The Dallas Morning News, The Christian Science Monitor, and NPR. He is the host of the Emmy Award-nominated RT America show On Contact.
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Forsåvidt med granaten rettet mot vesten, men de får kjenne på bakblåsten.
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Poenget er at et slikt tiltak vil ramme vesten relativt kortsiktig, men være totalt ødeleggende for Russisk økonomi på lang sikt.
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Nei, Putin skulle aldri startet denne krigen.
Ansvaret hviler fult og helt på Putin og hans lederskap, intet annet.
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Men hvorfor kunne ikke RU nøye seg med de fredsbevarende styrkene som skulle beskytte det russiskvennlige flertallet i Øst-UA?
De har ikke noe i Vest-UA å gjøre, hvis flertallet der ønsker tilknytning mot vest og NATO.
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Helt klart. Det som blir interessant for fremtiden er den utløsende faktoren. Det er i dag konsensus om at ww2 kunne blitt unngått om TY ikke hadde blitt så hardt behandlet under versaile traktaten.
Om vestens fortsatte propaganda? At den eksisterer, og at de fleste sluker den rått. Fordi vi tror den ikke eksisterer.
Nettopp nå er tiden å reflektere over hva vi blir fortalt fra alle kanter.
Det er ikke slik at Putin og Russland er eneste årsak til det som skjer i Ukraina.
Her er en seks år gammel video som forteller litt om utfordringene og årsakene.
Media påvirker oss til å være i fight-flight-mode så vi ikke tenker klart, det er åpenbart fra kommentarene i denne tråden.
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