NATO’s Policy of Self-Destruction as Ukraine is Being Destroyed | Col. Jacques Baud

Note by Fazal Rahman

This interview with Swiss Col. Jacques Baud contains one of the best factual and logical analysis of the Ukrainian Crisis and the roles of Russia, Ukraine, US, and Europe in it. In it, he also reports important information and insights about the nature and causes of various other wars and conflicts, like in Palestine, Gaza, Afghanistan, Libya, etc.

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Apr 23, 2024 Interviews Jacques Baud is a former member of Swiss strategic intelligence, a specialist in Eastern European countries and head of United Nations peace operations doctrine. He was engaged in negotiations with top Russian military and intelligence officials right after the fall of the USSR. Within NATO, he participated in programs in Ukraine and in particular during the Maidan revolution in 2014. Baud’s Books: https://www.amazon.com.br/stores/auth…

Passage of $95 billion bill by the US Congress for wars in Ukraine and Palestine and preparation for war in Taiwan

Jackpot for Arms Contractors, Pain for Ukraine: Who Gets What From Congress’ $61 Bln Bag of Goodies?

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Ilya Tsukanov

Note by Fazal Rahman

US House of Representatives just passed the $95 billion spending bill for wars in Ukraine and Palestine, and preparations for war in Taiwan, while inflation of basic necessities of life is making them unaffordable to countless millions of Americans, and their Medicaid coverage is also being eliminated or downgraded by maneuvers of the so-called Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), which has maintained a totally erroneous, flawed, and absurd system of measuring Federal Poverty Level (FPL) since 1963.  I am not going into factual details of that here, but these can be easily found on the Internet.  All these evils and injustices are being created by the elected representatives of American Capitalist-Imperialist Technological-Militarist Society, and implemented by the countless non-elected bureaucrats.  They have all sold out their souls and intellects to the Real Devil, the CAPITAL.  So has much of the electorate that constantly elects these replicas to all the federal, state, and local offices, frequently even against its own interests.

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Disillusionment of Slovakians with capitalist democracy

As Slovakia’s trust in democracy fades, its election frontrunner campaigns against aid to Ukraine

Note by Fazal Rahman

People in Slovakia, a former socialist country, are losing trust not in democracy in general, as title of this article states, but in the capitalist democracy.  They are also realizing the fallacy and futility of supporting the US and NATO proxy war in Ukraine, like in many other European countries. Robert Fico, who led Slovakia from 2006 to 2010 and again from 2012 to 2018, is the frontrunner in the the Sept. 30 election. He and his left-wing Direction, or Smer, party have campaigned on a clear pro-Russian and anti-American message. This article, published in the British newspaper “Independent” puts these facts within a framework which dilutes their nature and effects.

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Amid debacle of Ukrainian offensive, US demands the bloodbath continue

No official figures about the death toll from the war—now in its 19th month—have been published by Kiev or Washington. But according to the Washington Post, 50,000 or more Ukrainians have become amputees. Reliable reports place the number of Ukrainian soldiers killed in action at between 350,000 and 400,000. More deaths are expected by the Ukrainian regime, which, in return for endless amounts of loot, has placed the country’s youth at the service of US imperialism. A military cemetery for up to 600,000 soldiers is now under construction.

Which Country is the Largest Weapons Producer?

Note by Fazal Rahman

All the industrially higher developed countries are in a frenzy to surpass each other in increasing their military expenditures and developing ever-more destructive and efficient weapons, including those of mass destruction, and exporting them to as many countries as possible.  Rest of the world is also trying feverishly to do that and catch up.  US, especially during and after the Second World War, has been leading the world in that sinister direction and instigating the global arms race.  All this is happening at the expense of deprivation of billions of people, who are increasingly unable to satisfy even some of their basic needs of life, which in the absence of such astronomical expenditures on militaries and wars, would be easily met from the available resources.  All this is the result of the very nature of capitalism and imperialism, under which it is inevitable.  As far as China is concerned, it is no longer socialist, in spite of its pretensions to the contrary. It now has a state capitalist political economy, being implemented by its so-called “Communist Party”.  It now has more billionaires than the leading imperialist country in the world, the US of A.

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