International news round-up

 

Global South 

• Trump’s negotiation track on Ukraine is falling apart before our eyes. EU countries and Kiev blurred the boundaries of preliminary and suggested agreements. The Russian Foreign Ministry was again forced to repeat demands about the inadmissibility of deploying European troops on the territory of the former Ukrainian SSR and the acceptability of a meeting between the Supreme Leader and Zelensky only for (possible) signing final agreements. I theorize that work is being done behind the scenes but cannot speculate on what, as we do not know how Russia is going to approach the end phase. What is clear is the end result. Russia will handle Ukraine in some way or another. Mr Putin today visited Sarov, Nizhny Novgorod Region, where the Russian Federal Nuclear Centre — All-Russian Scientific Research Institute of Experimental Physics, is located. It is the 80th anniversary of Russia’s nuclear history, but it is also a signal. It is not long now before the last Ukrainian soldier is put out of action. NATO is a useless force now, but the legal environment is in complete disarray. It will take years before this takes shape.

• The US has lost its primacy and is desperately stretching to maintain something. The Tariff regime is now a joke as the biggest BRICS members are simply saying, No Way José!. So, they’ve taken to threatening Mexico and Venezuela as they cannot live without war. For the Mexican adventure, they are lying in that they are saying that US soldiers will fight cartels on Mexican soil, in combination with Mexico. “No foreign government would dare violate our sovereignty; it’s not like it used to be,” President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo asserted when asked about the DEA director, Terry Cole, who yesterday did not rule out bombing drug cartels on Mexican soil. She is refusing to even talk to the DEA: “I’m not going to enter into a debate with the DEA anymore … Mexico has a lot of strength; nationally, because of our people, because of what we represent as a government of the people; and internationally.” She continued to say: “We have a soldier in every son”. Clearly: “It’s not like it used to be!” 

• It is a full-scale diplomatic war (besides the kinetic killing of Palestinians, Syrians, Lebanese …) in the Middle East / West Asia territory. The zionist entity is completely insane now, announcing that it does not matter if there are agreements, they will still kill every Palestinian they can get their hands on. The world is their enemy now, and they are wildly declaring everyone a terrorist, even the UN authors of the latest studies that Gaza is in a declared state of famine. This is important legally because the Zionist entity is, of course, responsible for those whom they occupy.  These killers will get into a world courtroom.  The pressure is increasing on the zionist entity, and the anti-genocide protestors across the world are not leaving the streets despite staggering police brutality. Netanyahu’s announcement of an internet war against spreading news and information about the carnage only brought more people out.  They’ve killed the reporters and journalists, but the world is becoming reporters and journalists.  With big plans announced that the entity will now finally take Gaza City and win against Hamas, the average age of military forces is growing to an average of 50 years now.  They do not have the soldiers and are desperately recruiting.  Hamas now boasts 40,000 fighters.

• Iran remains in the highest state of war alert. Netanyahu may just attack again, to try and keep himself out of hot water in Israel. If all fails, make another war while he boasts that Israel is at war on seven fronts. 

• Syria has become a playground for competing agendas. From regional actors to global hegemons, each player appears committed to some plunder. 

• Iraq bursts into violence in spots. It is reported that the US is withdrawing soldiers from some bases, but the exact details are unclear. 

• Lebanon – Hezbollah refuses to hand over weapons, and they will not. Despite all kinds of legal maneuvering by the comprador client Lebanese government, it is a stalemate.  “Lebanon’s resistance has the right to exist and the right to fight back.”

• Brian Berletic weighs in on a report by the WSJ: As Trump pretends to seek peace with Russia, he continues to arm Ukraine. 

▪️3,350 ERAM missiles are being shipped to Ukraine, WSJ reports;

▪️WSJ also confirms literally every missile Ukraine fires at Russia is authorized by the US, together with the fact only US satellite tech can find targets in the first place and provide data necessary to hit them, these are essentially US strikes on Russia;

▪️This admitted, long-standing reality exposes this as America’s war on Russia, making the Trump administration’s posturing as “mediator” in its own war on Russia particularly dishonest and absurd, and reveals Washington as the primary obstacle to peace;

▪️The Trump administration’s pause on missiles strikes on Russia is only to lure Russia into freezing the conflict, if it becomes clear Russia isn’t falling for Minsk 3.0, US missile strikes will resume, additional missiles are already on their way;

We will soon see if this bears out.