Russian oil for India

[NatuGadu]

Spineless weak shaky Biden thatha kooda India gurinchi matladathunnadu

[Sr Fan]

33 minutes ago, krishna_Bidda said:

Yup what you said is absolutely what I got on my own research.....trump is an exception that deep state couldn't even believe would emerge as a president......but from my observation other than trump all the presidents from Clinton to current Biden are just employees of deep state or people like bush an influential family with in the deep state.... unfortunately trump was not balanced enough to handle deep state like modi did in India....

On mark KB brother.👍

(Only difference if at all is, In India, we did not have ghost power center in 'babu s' - the bureaucracy, their biggest drawback was sluggish operation & corruption. Modi was encountering  political elite class system, Corrupt media, post colonial drag, corrupt narrative of 'secularism' -that is deep entrenched even in public, nurtured by political leaderships etc.  Modi is more tactful, where as Trump is blunt.

In US the deep state has grown in to such a gigantic stature over the decades, it wields tremendous power & influence on everybody;  Media, Political class, now even the private sector/ tech. company giants are willing extensions of  this permanent state.  Ordinary citizens feel powerless against this powerful  'invisible state'.)

[Sr Fan]

30 minutes ago, NatuGadu said:

Spineless weak shaky Biden thatha kooda India gurinchi matladathunnadu

తోలు బొమ్మలాట- శ్రీరామనవమి కి వేస్తారే మన వైపు, గుర్తుందా నాటు బ్రదర్ ! తెర ముందు తోలు బొమ్మ  బైడెన్, తెరచాటు ఆడించేది - ఎన్నికలతో నిమిత్తం లేని, నిరంతరం కొనసాగే ఒక పెద్ద సంఖ్య రాజోద్యోగుల ముఠా.

ఏది రాసిస్తే అది చదువుతాడు....అంతే.

[krishna_Bidda]

17 hours ago, Sr Fan said:

On mark KB brother.👍

(Only difference if at all is, In India, we did not have ghost power center in 'babu s' - the bureaucracy, their biggest drawback was sluggish operation & corruption. Modi was encountering  political elite class system, Corrupt media, post colonial drag, corrupt narrative of 'secularism' -that is deep entrenched even in public, nurtured by political leaderships etc.  Modi is more tactful, where as Trump is blunt.

In US the deep state has grown in to such a gigantic stature over the decades, it wields tremendous power & influence on everybody;  Media, Political class, now even the private sector/ tech. company giants are willing extensions of  this permanent state.  Ordinary citizens feel powerless against this powerful  'invisible state'.)

Also I was surprised to see the influence of deep state in ivy league and they the narrative that was being pushed by force on brilliant young minds .....

[Sr Fan]

6 hours ago, krishna_Bidda said:

Also I was surprised to see the influence of deep state in ivy league and they the narrative that was being pushed by force on brilliant young minds .....

KB brother - If I ask you, what is the attraction of 'Silicon valley' for a fledgling student? I guess you will have an easy answer for the appeal - lucrative and budding career opportunities and richness all around,  high in the country for wealth on average basis. Easy pickings, because they are home to wealth generating big tech companies which  produce ' high value' to consuming world. 

What if I tell you, the silicon valley surrounding counties are less richer than the Washington DC near counties( Loudon county, Falls church city etc) which rely mostly on Government payroll and produce no material value like Silicon valley(Santa Clara, San Mateo), but still top the country.  Hard to believe right ? True. 40% of the top twenty richest counties in the country are next to Washington DC - the home of Deep state and its tentacles MIC, Pentagon, lobbyists of all varieties- domestic & foreign.

Deep state is an elite club- Influence, Power, Money, Social Connections, Networks, Relations, Cocktail parties etc. Only people who get their ticket punched in that social climate are acceptable for the elite seniors and power players for opportunities, recommendations, advancements. Plenty of tax dough comes in to capital, enormous money irrespective of producing that something market buys, people can get sustenance and longer careers without much strain like average folks.  Economy being good or bad will not impact their careers unlike the ebb and flows of private sector jobs.

Pushing a 'narrative' is not hard, ecosystem will carry the task( Wa.Po. - CIA related inputs, NYtimes- FBI and other political water carrying plants & lead stories, CNN- state dept. agenda etc). Recruitment of young crop of minds is not at all a tough sell, sizable percentage will flock always. Hope you get the idea.

[Sr Fan]

"Evolution In India's Position" On Russia: Top US Official To NDTV

New Delhi: Hours after US President Joe Biden's comment that India is an exception among Washington's allies with its "shaky" response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, a top American official has said democracies need to "stand together and evolve their position".

"I think there is an evolution in thinking going on here in India as well, and we see an evolution in position, but that's why it's important for us to talk."

As India "continues to evolve its position", US can offer help, she asserted.

"We know about the historic relationship and defence relationship between India and Russia at a time when the US was not prepared to have that kind of relationship. But times have changed now. They've changed in terms of the US and European willingness to be strong defence and security partners with India. We are doing more and more together in the Indo-Pacific. But times have also changed in terms of the level of brutality and violation of international humanitarian law that we are seeing," Ms Nuland said.

"We also talked about other opportunities for India to get what it needs including Soviet-era equipment potentially not from Russia itself. We have been supporting the sourcing of security needs for Ukraine along with our allies including Soviet-era equipment and those are the kind of things we can do with India as it continues to evolve its position."

"But what we do want to do is to work together to find alternative sources over time. And that's what we hope to do with India - whether it's with regard to the security relationship, the energy 
relationship... Because Russia has proven itself to be unreliable and to be a violator of international law," Ms Nuland told NDTV.

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'ఒబామా సార్ వాడికి  యుక్రెయిన్ లో 2014 లో పని చేసి పెట్టాగా, అట్లాగే  ఇండియా లో కూడా బుజ్జగించో, బెదిరించో , చెయ్యి మెలితిప్పో  కానిస్తాగా బైడెన్ బాసూ ! నన్ను పంపు ఢిల్లీ కి  ' విక్టోరియా న్యూలాండ్  ( మదం తక్కువ లేదు. ! )

[Sr Fan]

(Same lady  ..2014 Ukraine coup and aftermath - Victoria Nuland (Obama official) Talking about the Coup and who to install in Ukraine, with US ambassador to Ukraine.)

[Sr Fan]

మీ సెక్యూరిటీ గురించి ఆలోచనా ?  ఆ యుక్రెయిన్ కి కూడా  కావాలంటే పాత సోవియట్ ఆయుధాలు, ఇప్పుడు మా వైపు వున్నవేరే మాజీ 'వార్సా పాక్ట్ '/ సోవియట్  దేశాల నుంచి సర్దాము...వాళ్ళ భద్రత అంతా మా భరోసానే. ఇండియా కి కూడా అలాగే సర్దిపెడతాము, మేము చెప్పినట్లు చేస్తే, ఇబ్బందేం లేదు, కట్ చేసుకోండి రష్యా తో  - విక్టోరియా న్యూలాండ్ 

సుఖోయ్ సిరీస్, మిగ్ సిరీస్ , s  400 , s 500 (ఇంకా తీసుకోలేదు..చర్చలు)  అడ్వాన్స్డ్ ఆయుధాలు ....ఇవి అన్నీ మాయాబాజార్  లో  పాత సామాను/ స్పేర్ పార్ట్శ్  అన్నట్లు చెప్తోంది....ఆ పైన యుక్రెయిన్ గాటున కట్టేసింది ఇండియా ని.... పోలిక ! ....

యుక్రెయిన్ - 2014 లో తిరుగుబాట్లు రెచ్చగొట్టడం , ప్రభుత్వాల్ని పడగొట్టడం,  చెంచాల తో  నడపటం- ఆ నిర్వాకం అంతా, ఈమె కూడా ఒక పాత్ర ఆ ప్రహసనం లో,  తెలుసు అందరికి ...ఇప్పుడు పెనం లో నుంచి సరాసరి పొయ్యి లోకి విసిరారు... సెల్ఫ్ అవేర్నెస్ ఉండదా ! ....ఇండియా - ప్రపంచం లో అతి పెద్ద ప్రజాస్వామ్య దేశం, నాల్గవ పెద్ద సైన్యం, ఆర్థికంగా  ఐదో స్థాయి సైజు లో ..... అన్నిటికన్నా స్వయంప్రతిపత్తి కి ప్రాధాన్యత ఇచ్చే పరంపర ఉన్న దేశాన్ని పట్టుకొని  ... 

విషయాల మీద అవగాహన లేకా ,లేక  పొగరా ! 

[kurnool NTR]

1 hour ago, Sr Fan said:

మీ సెక్యూరిటీ గురించి ఆలోచనా ?  ఆ యుక్రెయిన్ కి కూడా  కావాలంటే పాత సోవియట్ ఆయుధాలు, ఇప్పుడు మా వైపు వున్నవేరే మాజీ 'వార్సా పాక్ట్ '/ సోవియట్  దేశాల నుంచి సర్దాము...వాళ్ళ భద్రత అంతా మా భరోసానే. ఇండియా కి కూడా అలాగే సర్దిపెడతాము, మేము చెప్పినట్లు చేస్తే, ఇబ్బందేం లేదు, కట్ చేసుకోండి రష్యా తో  - విక్టోరియా న్యూలాండ్ 

సుఖోయ్ సిరీస్, మిగ్ సిరీస్ , s  400 , s 500 (ఇంకా తీసుకోలేదు..చర్చలు)  అడ్వాన్స్డ్ ఆయుధాలు ....ఇవి అన్నీ మాయాబాజార్  లో  పాత సామాను/ స్పేర్ పార్ట్శ్  అన్నట్లు చెప్తోంది....ఆ పైన యుక్రెయిన్ గాటున కట్టేసింది ఇండియా ని.... పోలిక ! ....

యుక్రెయిన్ - 2014 లో తిరుగుబాట్లు రెచ్చగొట్టడం , ప్రభుత్వాల్ని పడగొట్టడం,  చెంచాల తో  నడపటం- ఆ నిర్వాకం అంతా, ఈమె కూడా ఒక పాత్ర ఆ ప్రహసనం లో,  తెలుసు అందరికి ...ఇప్పుడు పెనం లో నుంచి సరాసరి పొయ్యి లోకి విసిరారు... సెల్ఫ్ అవేర్నెస్ ఉండదా ! ....ఇండియా - ప్రపంచం లో అతి పెద్ద ప్రజాస్వామ్య దేశం, నాల్గవ పెద్ద సైన్యం, ఆర్థికంగా  ఐదో స్థాయి సైజు లో ..... అన్నిటికన్నా స్వయంప్రతిపత్తి కి ప్రాధాన్యత ఇచ్చే పరంపర ఉన్న దేశాన్ని పట్టుకొని  ... 

విషయాల మీద అవగాహన లేకా ,లేక  పొగరా ! 

Pure arrogance. Let’s wait and watch, we can see in our lifetime the downfall of the arrogant leadership in the name of democracy. 
 

 

[Sr Fan]

6 hours ago, kurnool NTR said:

Pure arrogance. Let’s wait and watch, we can see in our lifetime the downfall of the arrogant leadership in the name of democracy. 
 

 

ఎరగన్స్  &  గ్రీడ్  -  అహంకారం &  దురాశ 

ఈ రెండిటి లో ఇరుక్కుపోయి విశ్వవిజేత అవ్వాలని సిరియా పర్షియా ఇంకా అనేక దేశాల్ని జయించుకుంటా, అక్కడ తన సత్రపులని( గవర్నర్లు ) పెట్టుకొంటా గాంధార వైపు కు వచ్చిన, అలెగ్జాండర్ కి సమస్యలొచ్చాయి,  తిరుగుబాట్లు సత్రపులని హత్యలు చెయ్యటం, స్వతంత్ర ప్రతిపత్తి కోసం విప్లవాలు ప్రజల్లో  ...భారత ఉపఖండం లో ఒకటి ఆరా విజయాలొచ్చినా  తరువాత మగధ ని ఢీ కొట్టలేమని గంగ ని దాటలేమని భయం, ఇంటి మీద గాలి మళ్ళిన సైనికులు నిస్సత్తువ ... వెనక్కు తిరిగి వెళ్ళిపోవటం ...... 

బ్రదర్స్ -ఈ క్రమం లో  క్రీస్తు పూర్వం 326 నాటి మాట ఇది.....ఇప్పటి పాకిస్తాన్- తక్షశిల అరణ్యాల( ఇప్పటి ఖైబర్ ఫక్తుంక్వా , ఉత్తర పంజాబ్ ప్రాంతాలు ) లో స్వేచ్ఛగా 'రీసెర్చ్' లు(తపస్సు ) చేసుకొనే మునులైన  దండి స్వామి, ఆయన శిష్యులలో ఒకరైన కల్యాణ ముని - వీళ్ళ పట్ల ఆసక్తి ఉన్న అరిస్టాటిల్ శిష్యుడు అలెగ్జాండర్ తన సమస్య చెప్పుకొంటాడు కల్యాణ ముని( కొలొనూస్ అని రాసుకొంటారు గ్రీకులు ) తో ....ప్రకృతి ఇంకా ఇతర శాస్త్ర నిగూఢ విషయాల గురించి పరిశోధనలు చేసుకొనే ఆ భారతీయ దృష్టి ఎలా ఉంటది? -  అహంకారం(సామ్రాజ్య కాంక్ష), దురాశ కి మందు ? (31 : 30  నిమిషం నుంచి 34 :40  నిమిషం )

(31 : 30  నిమిషం నుంచి 34 :40  నిమిషం )

[Sr Fan]

"It Doesn't Work" For Us - Austrian Chancellor Rejects Biden's Pressure To Boycott Russia Energy

As President Biden struggles to convince America's European allies to bite the bullet and agree to tougher sanctions on Russian energy during his trip to Brussels (where he is participating in meetings with NATO, the G-7 and the EU), Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer offered the latest example of why this this will likely be a futile effort on Biden's part, as uniting Europe in opposition to Russia simply isn't feasible given its dependence on Russian oil and gas.

Speaking Thursday, Nehammer denied reports in the Austrian press claiming his government was in talks to agree to an embargo on Russian energy. The reality couldn't be further from the truth he said, adding that talk of a Russian energy boycott is "unrealistic and wrong".

"It doesn't work. Austria gets 80% of its gas from Russia." What's more, rumors of a boycott are harmful in and of themselves, because they serve to drive energy prices higher.

Austria depends on Russia for nearly 60% of its total energy consumption, and an even larger share of its natural gas imports, as Nehammer noted, which is why growing pressure from US President Joe Biden to restrict imports of Russian energy simply isn't feasible.

[kurnool NTR]

12 hours ago, Sr Fan said:

"It Doesn't Work" For Us - Austrian Chancellor Rejects Biden's Pressure To Boycott Russia Energy

As President Biden struggles to convince America's European allies to bite the bullet and agree to tougher sanctions on Russian energy during his trip to Brussels (where he is participating in meetings with NATO, the G-7 and the EU), Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer offered the latest example of why this this will likely be a futile effort on Biden's part, as uniting Europe in opposition to Russia simply isn't feasible given its dependence on Russian oil and gas.

Speaking Thursday, Nehammer denied reports in the Austrian press claiming his government was in talks to agree to an embargo on Russian energy. The reality couldn't be further from the truth he said, adding that talk of a Russian energy boycott is "unrealistic and wrong".

"It doesn't work. Austria gets 80% of its gas from Russia." What's more, rumors of a boycott are harmful in and of themselves, because they serve to drive energy prices higher.

Austria depends on Russia for nearly 60% of its total energy consumption, and an even larger share of its natural gas imports, as Nehammer noted, which is why growing pressure from US President Joe Biden to restrict imports of Russian energy simply isn't feasible.

Germany and Austria get most of their gas from Russia. This has been happening since the end of WW 2. They have laid special pipelines for the gas transport. It would be detrimental to those countries to cut the gas all of a sudden but they have long term plans to slowly decrease the dependency on Russian gas. 

[NatuGadu]

1 hour ago, kurnool NTR said:

Germany and Austria get most of their gas from Russia. This has been happening since the end of WW 2. They have laid special pipelines for the gas transport. It would be detrimental to those countries to cut the gas all of a sudden but they have long term plans to slowly decrease the dependency on Russian gas. 

Won't workout that easily to replace

[Sr Fan]

Pentagon Drops Truth Bombs to Stave Off War With Russia

The Pentagon is engaged in a consequential battle with the U.S. State Department and the Congress to prevent a direct military confrontation with Russia, which could unleash the most unimaginable horror of war.

President Joe Biden is caught in the middle of the fray. So far he is siding with the Defense Department, saying there cannot be a NATO no-fly zone over Ukraine fighting Russian aircraft because “that’s called World War III, okay? Let’s get it straight here, guys. We will not fight the third world war in Ukraine.”

“President Biden’s been clear that U.S. troops won’t fight Russia in Ukraine, and if you establish a no-fly zone, certainly in order to enforce that no-fly zone, you’ll have to engage Russian aircraft. And again, that would put us at war with Russia,” said U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin earlier this month. (The administration plan is to bring down the Russian government through a ground insurgency and economic war, not a direct military one.)

But pressure on the White House from some members of Congress and especially the press corps is unrelenting to recklessly bring NATO directly into the war. (Secretary of State Antony Blinken who initially backed a plan to send NATO planes from Poland to Ukraine has backed down and now opposes any no-fly zone. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi also supported the Polish planes scheme, which was shot down by the Pentagon.)

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, hailed as a virtual superhero in Western media, has vacillated between openness to negotiating a peace settlement with Russia and calling for NATO, again on Friday, to “close the skies” above Ukraine. To save his country he appears willing to risk endangering the entire world. 

Meanwhile, Western corporate media, depending almost exclusively on Ukrainian sources, report that Russia is losing the war, with its military offensive “stalled,” and in frustration has deliberately targeted civilians and flattened cities.

Biden has bought into this part of the story, calling Russian President Vladimir Putin a “war criminal.” He has also said that Russia is planning a “false flag” chemical attack to pin on Ukraine. 

But on Tuesday, the Pentagon took the bold step of leaking two stories to reporters that contradict those tales. “Russia’s conduct in the brutal war tells a different story than the widely accepted view that Vladimir Putin is intent on demolishing Ukraine and inflicting maximum civilian damage—and it reveals the Russian leader’s strategic balancing act,” reported Newsweek in an article entitled, “Putin’s Bombers Could Devastate Ukraine But He’s Holding Back. Here’s Why.”

The piece quotes an unnamed analyst at the Pentagon’s Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) saying, “The heart of Kyiv has barely been touched. And almost all of the long-range strikes have been aimed at military targets.”

A retired U.S. Air Force officer now working as an analyst for a Pentagon contractor, added: “We need to understand Russia’s actual conduct. If we merely convince ourselves that Russia is bombing indiscriminately, or [that] it is failing to inflict more harm because its personnel are not up to the task or because it is technically inept, then we are not seeing the real conflict.”

The article says:

“As of the past weekend, in 24 days of conflict, Russia has flown some 1,400 strike sorties and delivered almost 1,000 missiles (by contrast, the United States flew more sorties and delivered more weapons in the first day of the 2003 Iraq war). …

A proportion of those strikes have damaged and destroyed civilian structures and killed and injured innocent civilians, but the level of death and destruction is low compared to Russia’s capacity.

‘I know it’s hard … to swallow that the carnage and destruction could be much worse than it is,’ says the DIA analyst. ‘But that’s what the facts show. This suggests to me, at least, that Putin is not intentionally attacking civilians, that perhaps he is mindful that he needs to limit damage in order to leave an out for negotiations.'”

A second retired U.S. Air Force officer says:

“I’m frustrated by the current narrative—that Russia is intentionally targeting civilians, that it is demolishing cities, and that Putin doesn’t care. Such a distorted view stands in the way of finding an end before true disaster hits or the war spreads to the rest of Europe. I know that the news keeps repeating that Putin is targeting civilians, but there is no evidence that Russia is intentionally doing so. In fact, I’d say that Russian could be killing thousands more civilians if it wanted to.”

These Pentagon sources confirm what Putin and the Russian Ministry of Defense have been saying all along: that instead of being “stalled,” Russia is executing a methodical war plan to encircle cities, opening humanitarian corridors for civilians, leaving civilian infrastructure like water, electricity, telephony and internet intact, and trying to avoid as many civilian casualties as possible.

Until these Pentagon leaks it was difficult to confirm that Russia was entirely telling the truth and that corporate media were publishing fables cooked up by Ukraine’s publicity machine. 

No Evidence of Chemicals

The Pentagon’s mettle will be tested if there is a chemical weapons attack in Ukraine. Biden has said Russia would pay a “severe price” but who the perpetrator would be might be murky. Whoever might be behind such an attack, the calls for direct military action are sure to increase in the U.S. media, the Congress and perhaps internally at the State Dept.

The second mainstream article directly undermines Biden’s dramatic warning.  Reuters reported: “The United States has not yet seen any concrete indications of an imminent Russian chemical or biological weapons attack in Ukraine but is closely monitoring streams of intelligence for them, a senior U.S. defense official said.”

It quoted the Pentagon official as saying, “There’s no indication that there’s something imminent in that regard right now.” Neither The New York Times nor The Washington Post published the Reuters article, which appeared in the more obscure U.S. News and World Report. 

Never let the facts get in the way of a good story — even if it could lead to the most devastating consequences in history.
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(Joe Lauria is editor-in-chief of Consortium News and a former U.N. correspondent for The Wall Street Journal, Boston Globe, and numerous other newspapers, including The Montreal Gazette and The Star of Johannesburg. He was an investigative reporter for the Sunday Times of London, a financial reporter for Bloomberg News.)

[kurnool NTR]

 

[Sr Fan]

Regime change has been the US goal in Russia for years
For all the damage control that followed Biden’s ‘Putin cannot remain in power’ remark, that’s exactly what Washington wishes for

It was the culminating event of a four-day trip planned at the last minute for the purpose of rallying Europe to the cause of standing up to Russia’s military incursion into Ukraine. Speaking before a large and enthusiastic crowd in the Polish capital of Warsaw, US President Joe Biden concluded his remarks by going off-script. After condemning what he called his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin’s “brutality” in Ukraine, Biden uttered nine words that, in a blink of an eye, made moot whatever else had been accomplished on this trip: “For God’s sake, this man [Putin] cannot remain in power.”

When Biden arrived back in the US, he was asked if he was, in fact, calling for regime change in Moscow. Biden offered a terse one-word answer: “No.”

But the off-the-cuff statement continued to haunt Biden, who was compelled to later offer a more detailed explanation for his outburst, telling the press “I was expressing the moral outrage I felt…[at] the actions of this man [i.e., Putin],” Biden said. “I wasn't then, nor am I now, articulating a policy change.”

Biden later added that “Nobody believes I was talking about taking down Putin. Nobody believes that.”

Apparently enough people were concerned about that very issue to prompt diplomats in the US and Europe to go into overdrive to explain otherwise. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken declared that the US had “repeatedly” stated that “we do not have a strategy of regime change in Russia–or anywhere else. For us, it’s not about regime change,” he explained. “The Russian people have to decide who they want to lead them.”

Josep Borrell, the EU’s chief diplomat, also stepped up to explain away Biden’s remarks. “[In the EU] we are not after a regime change, that is something for the Russian citizens to decide, if they
of course could decide that.” 

Unfortunately for both Blinken and Borrell, the evidence seems to suggest otherwise. According to British journalist Niall Ferguson, a senior Biden administration official was quoted as saying, prior to Biden’s slip of the tongue, that in the aftermath of the Russian military incursion into Ukraine, “The only end game now is the end of Putin regime. Until then, all the time Putin stays, [Russia] will be a pariah state that will never be welcomed back into the community of nations.”

Neither the sentiment (i.e., Putin has to go) nor the mechanism of regime change (that the Russian people will force him out) represent new thinking in terms of the West’s approach to the current Russian government. In fact, both are well known to Russia. According to Michael McFaul, the US Ambassador to Russia from 2012-2014, Russian President Vladimir Putin believes that the US works hard to foster regime changes around the world, including in Russia, through the vehicle of so-called “color revolutions” or mass civil uprisings.

Back in 2005, McFaul himself wrote an entire paper on US efforts at regime change in the former USSR. This was one of the reasons that President Barack Obama’s decision to send him to Moscow proved so unpopular with the Russian side.

The Kremlin accused the US of engaging in such action in Russia following the December 2011 Russian Duma election, narrowly won by then-Prime Minister Putin’s party. At a meeting of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton following the 2011 Duma election, expressed her “serious concern about the conduct of the elections,” and called for a “full investigation of all reports of fraud and intimidation,” adding “The Russian people, like people everywhere, deserve the right to have their voices heard and their votes counted. And that means they deserve free, fair, transparent elections and leaders who are accountable to them.”

Putin in turn accused Clinton of giving “the signal” to opposition leaders to undertake mass unrest to undermine the Russian elections. “[Opposition leaders] heard the signal and with the support of the US state department began active work,” Putin said after Clinton’s comments. “We are all grownups here. We all understand the organizers are acting according to a well-known scenario and in their own mercenary political interests.”

McFaul underscored the concern on the part of Putin when it came to Clinton’s remarks. “He was genuinely worried about this mobilization against him,” McFaul said later, “and that’s when he pivoted hard against us. For Putin, this was confirming his theory of US foreign policy.”

McFaul would know, given the fact that he was the architect of the so-called “Russia reset” policy undertaken by the administration of President Barack Obama in 2009. The real purpose of this reset policy, however, was regime change–to facilitate the empowerment of President Dmitry Medvedev, the former Prime Minister who had swapped places with Putin in 2008 due to the Russian Constitution limiting Putin to two consecutive terms in office (the Constitution has since been amended), to permanently replace Putin as President. 

Under McFaul’s influence, the White House limited contact with Putin, placing all its attention on Medvedev. This full-court press for preventing Putin’s return to the Kremlin as President extended to Joe Biden, who at the time was Obama’s Vice President.

During a trip to Moscow in March 2011, Biden allegedly urged Putin not to seek reelection, telling a group of Russian opposition leaders that it would be better for Russia if Putin did not run for re-election next year. “At the end of the meeting,” Boris Nemtsov, a leading opposition figure who was murdered in Moscow on February 27, 2015, noted in his blog, “Biden said that in Putin’s place he would not stand for president in 2012 because this would be bad for the country and for himself.”

Putin, of course, ignored Biden’s “advice”, and went on to re-take the presidency in the March 2012 election.

The Russian government has long held that Western intelligence services had been using “democracy promotion” as a front to organize political opposition to Putin with the goal of removing him from office–i.e., regime change. One of the most public aspects of this effort was the discovery by Russia of a so-called “spy rock” used by the British intelligence agency, MI6, to communicate with its agents in Moscow. At the same time this object (in reality, a covert electronic device used to facilitate communications) was in operation, the Russian intelligence services were accusing the British of secretly funding Russian political opposition groups.

Incidents such as the ‘spy rock’ led the Russian government to crack down on foreign-funded non-governmental organizations (NGOs), first passing laws which compelled groups that receive foreign funding and are deemed to engage in political activities to register as “foreign agents,” before barring NGOs altogether if they were deemed to pose a threat to Russia’s constitutional order, defense or security. The list of banned organizations included USAID, prompting the Obama administration to withdraw from the Civil Society Working Group of the US-Russia Bilateral Presidential Commission. Thomas Melia, the group’s American co-chair, observed that the “recent steps taken by the Russian government to impose restrictions on civil society…called into serious question whether maintaining that mechanism was either useful or appropriate.” His sentiments were echoed by State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland, who told the press that “the working group was not advancing the cause of civil society in Russia.”

Left unspoken was the reality that what the US called “advancing the cause of civil society in Russia” was seen by Russia as little more than thinly disguised efforts at regime change through foreign-funded “color revolution.”

While the overt and covert efforts of the US and its western allies to undermine and overthrow the Putin government by facilitating internal political opposition inside Russia took a hiatus during the four years of the Trump administration, the election of Joe Biden in 2020, and the advent of the current Ukraine crisis, has led to the re-engagement by the Biden administration to attempt to weaken Putin’s hold on power and, ultimately, to remove the long-serving Russian President from office.

The Biden administration has taken to the artifice of speaking to the people of Russia directly to foment internal unrest inside Russia. “We know many of you want no part of this war,” Secretary of State Antony Blinken recently said, addressing the people of Russia. “You–like Ukrainians, like Americans, like people everywhere–want the same basic things: good jobs, clean air and water, the chance to raise your kids in safe neighborhoods, to send them to good schools, to give them better lives than you had. How in the world does President Putin’s unprovoked aggression against Ukraine help you achieve any of these things?”

Left unsaid was what Blinken expected the Russian people to do about it.

Blinken’s comments followed those made by Joe Biden in the days leading up to the Russian military incursion into Ukraine when, on February 15, the US President addressed the Russian people directly: “To the citizens of Russia: You are not our enemy,” Biden said. “And I do not believe you want a bloody, destructive war against Ukraine–a country and a people with whom you share such deep ties of family, history, and culture.”

The State Department has taken to sending out tweets in the Russian language encouraging public demonstrations against the war. “The open protest of Russians against President Putin and his war is a very courageous act,” one such tweet declares. “As President Biden said, the people of Russia are not our enemy. We blame this war on President Putin, not them.”

The Biden administration has gone out of its way to make sure that its program of communicating directly to the Russian people to promote domestic discontent inside Russia is part and parcel of an overall strategy to remove Putin from office. Biden himself underscored in his February 15 remarks that “We do not seek to destabilize Russia.”

But some in the US elite are, in fact, calling for the removal of Putin from power. “Is there a Brutus in Russia?” Senator Lindsey Graham, a Republican (from South Carolina) known for his anti-Putin sentiment, wrote in a March 3 tweet. “Is there a more successful Colonel Stauffenberg in the Russian military? The only way this ends is for somebody in Russia to take this guy out. You would be doing your country–and the world–a great service.”

When called out for his tweet, Graham doubled down. “He [Putin] needs to be dealt with by the Russian people,” Graham said. “I’m not asking to invade Russia to take him out. I’m not asking to send American ground forces into Ukraine to fight the Russian army. I am asking the Russian people to rise up and end this reign of terror.”

The Biden White House was quick to push back against Graham’s March 3 tweet. “No, we are not advocating for killing the leader of a foreign country or a regime change,” White House spokesperson Jen Psaki noted. “That is not the position of the United States government and certainly not a statement you’d hear come from the mouth of anybody working in this administration.”

Then Joe Biden, the President of the United States, gave voice to that very same sentiment during his Warsaw address: “For God’s sake, this man [Putin] cannot remain in power.”

There simply is no other way to spin that statement. Whether spoken or unspoken, it is clear to all that the official policy of the United States is, and has been since 2009, regime change in Moscow, using the forces of so-called “democratic reform” (i.e., mass unrest) to oust President Putin.

Unfortunately for Biden, Blinken, Graham and their fellow regime-change travelers, an opinion poll from Levada (recognized as a foreign agent in Russia) showed that the Russian leader’s approval rating was over 71%. The chances of their regime-change fantasy coming true at this stage in the game are exactly zero.
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(Scott Ritter is a former US Marine Corps intelligence officer and author of 'SCORPION KING: America's Suicidal Embrace of Nuclear Weapons from FDR to Trump.' He served in the Soviet Union as an inspector implementing the INF Treaty, in General Schwarzkopf’s staff during the Gulf War, and from 1991-1998 as a UN weapons inspector.)

[Sr Fan]

 

[Sr Fan]

On 3/22/2022 at 10:26 PM, Sr Fan said:

తోలు బొమ్మలాట- శ్రీరామనవమి కి వేస్తారే మన వైపు, గుర్తుందా నాటు బ్రదర్ ! తెర ముందు తోలు బొమ్మ  బైడెన్, తెరచాటు ఆడించేది - ఎన్నికలతో నిమిత్తం లేని, నిరంతరం కొనసాగే ఒక పెద్ద సంఖ్య రాజోద్యోగుల ముఠా.

ఏది రాసిస్తే అది చదువుతాడు....అంతే.

Biden Cheat Sheet Shows How Team Behind White House Intended to Control His Cleanup

When Joe Biden appeared before the press corps today, the intent was to clean up the mess he created in his trip to NATO this past weekend.

When Biden makes policy statements and reads from the teleprompter, Joe Biden usually doesn’t answer questions.  Today was different.  Today, it was obvious the White House communication team needed Biden to clean up his NATO statements. 

The evidence for that is very clear, as someone was able to capture a picture of the talking points that were prepared for him to read.

[kurnool NTR]

The following lists major buyers of Russian oil:

Neftohim Burgas

A Bulgarian refinery, owned by Russia’s Lukoil, and, with Russian crude accounting for about 60 percent of its intake, continues to refine Russian crude.

MiRo

Russian crude continues to account for about 14 percent of the intake at Germany’s largest refinery, Miro, which is 24 percent owned by Rosneft.

PCK Schwedt

Germany’s refinery, 54 percent owned by Rosneft, receives crude oil via the Druzhba pipeline.

Pertamina

Indonesian state energy firm PT Pertamina is considering buying crude oil from Russia as it seeks oil for a newly revamped refinery.

Leuna

The land-locked Leuna refinery in eastern Germany, majority-owned by TotalEnergies, is also fed Russian crude by the Druzhba pipeline.

Hellenic Petroleum

Greece’s biggest oil refiner relies on Russian crude for about 15 percent of its intake. The company earlier this month secured additional supplies from Saudi Arabia.

ISAB

Italy’s largest refinery, owned by Lukoil-controlled Swiss-based Litasco SA, processes Russian and non-Russian crude.

MOL

The Hungarian oil group, which operates three refineries in Croatia, Hungary and Slovakia, continues to be supplied by the Druzhba pipeline. Hungary is opposed to sanctions on Russian oil and gas.

Zeeland Refinery

The Dutch refinery, 45 percent owned by Lukoil, declined to comment on whether it was using Russian crude oil.

Rotterdam Refinery

Exxon Mobil declined to comment on whether its Dutch refinery in Rotterdam was using Russian crude oil.

Hindustan Petroleum

India’s state refiner bought two million barrels of Russian Urals for May loading, according to trading sources last week.

Indian Oil Corporation

India’s top refiner on March 23 bought three million barrels of Urals for May delivery from Vitol, trade sources said. This is the second purchase of Urals by IOC since Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24.

Nayara Energy

Indian private refiner, part-owned by Russia’s Rosneft, has bought Russian oil after a gap of a year, buying about 1.8 million barrels of Urals from trader Trafigura.

The following lists companies that have stopped buying Russian oil:

BP

The British oil major, which is abandoning its stake in Rosneft, will not enter new deals with Russian entities for loading at Russian ports, unless “essential for ensuring security of supplies”.

Eneos

Japan’s biggest refiner has stopped buying crude oil from Russia, while some cargoes signed under previous agreements will arrive in Japan until around April.

ENI

The energy group, 30.3 percent owned by the Italian government, is suspending purchases of Russian oil.

Bayernoil

No Russian crude will be used at Germany’s Bayernoil refinery, in which Eni and Rosneft have stakes.

Equinor

Norway’s majority state-owned energy firm has stopped trading Russian oil as it winds down its operations in the country.

Galp

The Portuguese oil and gas company has suspended all new purchases of petroleum products from Russia or Russian companies.

Neste

The Finnish refiner has Russian oil contracts until the end of the year but is not making any new supply agreements.

PKN Orlen

Poland’s largest refiner has not bought Urals crude on the spot market since the start of the war in Ukraine, the company said on Friday, while it has bought a few cargoes from Norway.

 

[NatuGadu]

Maa Trump thatha ni Anni maatalannaru... Look at this joker Biden toung slips... 

President office cover drivers cheyyaleka chasthundhi

[Sr Fan]

10 hours ago, NatuGadu said:

Maa Trump thatha ni Anni maatalannaru... Look at this joker Biden toung slips... 

President office cover drivers cheyyaleka chasthundhi

'ట్విట్టర్ లో తిట్టాడు, పెద్ద పెద్ద బాబుల మీద ఎడా పెడా అరిచాడు ట్రంప్ ' ... నిజానిజాలు అటుంచి, ఈ మీడియా కధనాలు పైకి గరుకు గా ఉన్నా ఇవన్నీ కాకరకాయ పైన బుడిపెల్లాంటివే ......దీనికి మూలంలో సమాధానం కావాలంటే నాటు బ్రదర్( సంక్షిప్తంగా)...

పెట్టుకోకూడని వాళ్ళతో పెట్టుకున్నాడు !  

వీళ్ళు 'వోకిజం', 'క్యాన్సిలింగ్ కల్చర్' లో కొట్టుకుపోతున్న అర్థం పర్థం లేని లెఫ్ట్ వింగ్ డెమొక్రాట్స్ కాదు, వాషింగ్టన్ లో దొరికే దొంగ తిళ్ళకు అలవాటు పడి యుద్ధం యుద్ధం అని చొక్కాలు చింపేసుకొనే కొంత మంది రిపబ్లికన్లు కాదు, నంది ని పంది లా పంది ని నంది లా చూపించే టీవీ- ప్రింట్- డిజిటల్ మీడియా సంస్థలు కాదు, మా వ్యాపారాలకు గండి పడకూడదు ఏం చెయ్యాలి?, ఎవరికి డబ్బులివ్వాలి ?  అనే మల్టీనేషనల్ కంపెనీలు కాదు.... వీళ్ళందరూ స్టేక్ హోల్డర్స్, బలవంతులు  నిజమే.

కానీ చెప్పినట్లు చేసుకుపోయే పాత్రధారులు కూడా  - అస్సలు  మాస్టర్ మటుకు వేరే - ఇన్విజిబుల్ బీస్ట్  - చక్రం తిప్పేది మేమే అనుకొనే అమాయక దేశ జనాభా తో ఏ మాత్రం సంబంధం లేని, ఈ థ్రెడ్ సంభాషణ లో ఒక  కేంద్ర బిందువు - డీప్ స్టేట్ అనబడే సంస్థాగత అధికార గణం, యంత్రాన్గమ్- పెర్మనెంట్ బ్యూరోక్రసీ.

కాకరకాయ పైన వంకర టింకర బుడిపెలు కాదు అస్సలు సమస్య, ఆ లోపల చేదు మింగుడు పడటం లేదు - పెర్మనెంట్ బ్యూరోక్రసీ కి....ముప్పేట దాడి ఉంటది మరి ఎదురు నిలబడితే.

( మజ్జిగ లో ఒకపూట నాంచి వేపుడు చేస్తే మా అమ్మ-  బాండీ లో కూర మిగలదు,   బెల్లం వేసి నిదానంగా బొగ్గుల కుంపటి పైన వండేది మా అమ్మమ్మ అమ్మ(ముత్తమ్మ ) చిక్కటి పులుసు- చట్టి ఖాళీ  అన్ని కూరల కంటే ముందు .....రుచితో పాటు ఆరోగ్యంకూడా, వండాల్సిన విధంగా వండుకు తినాలి కాకరకాయని)

[Sr Fan]

US official warns India, others against increasing Russian oil imports

A significant increase in Russian oil imports by India could expose New Delhi to a "great risk" as the US prepares to step up enforcement of sanctions against Moscow, a senior official said.

Reuters  |  New Delhi Last Updated at March 31, 2022

[Sr Fan]

US says no 'red line' for India's oil imports from Russia
There are consequences for countries looking to circumvent the US sanctions against Russia, the US warned on Thursday ahead of Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov’s arrival in India. Visiting US deputy NSA Daleep Singh, who is leading US efforts to sanction Russia, didn’t specify the consequences though. 

India is a sovereign nation, I am not gonna tell India what to do: British foreign secretary Elizabeth Truss.

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( From US, UK, Germany high govt. officials are visiting Delhi, and applying carrots n sticks ploy, tacitly sending message to India to kowtow their position- notwithstanding their public statements such as 'India is a sovereign country & they make their own decisions' etc.)

[Sr Fan]

India wants to be Inter-dependent with community of countries around the world, but also not at the expense of its Independency, to make own decisions and destiny.

Make no mistake, in the allure of quick material gains & powerful friendships, if one forsakes Self Esteem - a key Value in Person's or Nation's mental makeup, they won't get material growth in the longer duration either, deserve to lose both.

As it is slowly unwinding itself from the suffering of debilitating 'Post Colonial Mental Hangover' - India will face these kind of tests along the way, before it asserts her values without looking over shoulders.

[Sr Fan]

India must be courteous, professional and diplomatic in their handling with the emissaries of West. Need to assert their views and Independency gently, and also no need for sharp elbows.  A deft diplomacy along with firmly standing for its values, is the need of the hour.  

It looks like they are doing that exactly. So far Indian government and all the parties in the political spectrum standing united in reflecting the views & values of people of 130 crores.  Nice work. 

[Sr Fan]

“It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal.”

(Henry Kissinger, Sec. of State in Nixon era...Still keeps busy himself in art of diplomacy even at an advanced age. He is a revered Diplomat in West in the circuit, occasionally pens his mind in Newspapers about foreign affairs. This above quip must be from a candid moment, since there is historical truth to its validity in multiple instances.)

[Sr Fan]

 

[Sr Fan]

'Russia sanctions threaten to erode dominance of US dollar, says IMF' - Financial Times

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(People and Nations won't get 'Cancel Out' because of sanctions, 'Nature' takes its course of adaptation, and new ways of 'Dealing' & new 'Systems' will emerge, that will only weaken the Petro dollar dominance.  Arrogance comes before fall.)

[Sr Fan]

Russia sanctions, according to the IMF, threaten to undermine the dollar’s dominance – report
 

Sanctions against Russia, according to Gita Gopinath, the International Monetary Fund’s First Deputy Managing Director, could undermine the US dollar’s global dominance (IMF).

“The dollar would remain the major global currency even in that landscape, but fragmentation at a smaller level is certainly quite possible,” Gopinath said in an interview with the Financial Times.

She went on to say that some countries have already begun to renegotiate the currency in which they are paid for trade.

Russia and India are working on a rupee-ruble mechanism that will allow them to trade in national currencies while avoiding the dollar.

According to Gopinath, the drastic restrictions imposed by Western countries in response to Russia’s military operation in Ukraine may result in the formation of small currency blocs based on trade between individual groups of countries.

Furthermore, the use of currencies other than the dollar or the euro in global trade would result in a further diversification of central banks’ reserve assets.

According to ex-Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, a new global financial order will be negotiated, and the West will no longer have a veto.

The “hellish” sanctions imposed on Russia by the US, EU, and their allies over the Ukraine conflict have failed to cripple the country, instead “returning to the West like a boomerang,” according to Medvedev, who is now the Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council, according to RT.

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Sanctions sanctions Ani usa vallu rest of the economy ni Kill chesthunnadu.... Wait and see ... It's kind of ripple effects...

If this trend continues... 2022, 23 also fasak ... Not much growth