Geopolitically, I see multiple reasons to behave this way. (1) to soften tension with the West. (2) to reduce collateral damage to Israel. Not out of love for Russian Jews living in the US, but for the Jewish influences on the US. (3) to keep a good relationship with GCC. For OPEC to align more with BRICS or Russian interests, Russia cannot afford to let KSA drift too close toward the US. Whether Israel will attack Iran also has some dependence on the Gulf Countries' attitude. (3) The UN-recognized Yemeni government is likely Sunni (not sure) and historically aligned with KSA. I think two separate states are better than a single state constantly in civil war. When the climate is right, I think Russia would have no problem recognizing Houthis as a legitimate but separate government. I do suspect another international player might be popping up the Houthis.
As for Pepe, I listened to him twice, then I shut off. I consider him a lefty romanticist. He would be a great conversationalist when you have the time and luxury to puff a cigar and sip champagne while talking about all kinds of subjects all over the world. Then you wake up and go home to resume your normal daily lives. Many things he says are in the right direction, but the exact details tend to be off. His predictions about the greatness of BRICS are obvious examples.
As for Pepe, I listened to him twice, then I shut off. I consider him a lefty romanticist. He would be a great conversationalist when you have the time and luxury to puff a cigar and sip champagne while talking about all kinds of subjects all over the world. Then you wake up and go home to resume your normal daily lives. Many things he says are in the right direction, but the exact details tend to be off. His predictions about the greatness of BRICS are obvious examples.
Nicely put just don't agree on the value coming from listening to his romanticism.
The emergence of Eretz Israel is a foregone conclusion, now with Hamas practically on deathbed and the Resistance effectively on ventilator, and bastions or cradles of Islam ruled over by the Hashemite king of Amman descended from Muhammad's Quraish clan and bewitching Scandinavian females, as well as the custodian of two holiest mosques of Islam together with his Bedouin satellites on Persian Gulf littoral being firmly on board with Israel vide the Abrahamic accords. After all, Eretz Israel is the promise made by Hashem Most High to the Patriarch, and no power on earth can undo its unfolding!
But the inevitability of unrest which these developments will foment amongst huge sections of Arab populace in the vast expanse from Muscat and Somalia to the Atlas mountains, a continuum which British cartographers have described as a map having the likeness of a Welsh terrier pup, cannot be overstated. In the interests of long term peace and global stability, it is imperative to seek solutions that pacify all and unsettle no one.
A likely solution is to be found in the writings of a medieval Islamic seer, who had prophesied the coming of an Islamic Empire in Europe, because apparently Allah had ordained so.
With the possibility of Oreshniks and Sarmats raining bouquets on European capitals now looming at an all time high over the horizon, it is about time for that prophesy to materialise, with almost total voluntary transfer of Bedouin, Berber North African and Tuareg populations from the Arab lands enmasse to Europe, in the vanguard or trail of goodwill visits by Oreshniks. The exceptional adaptability of the said populace to irradiated soil and its penchant for merriment in company of white mermaids cannot be overemphasised. A Europe subject to the tender mercies and immaculate wisdom of Islam will rise to glory with the temper of scientific renaissance that had characterised the heyday of the early medieval Arab Islamic empire with its capital at Baghdad. After that, there shall prevail lasting peace in all corners of the earth for a thousand years, all surviving nations and peoples shall know happiness and ultimate contentment and freedom from unsatiated want till doomsday. Discipline nurtured by the Shariat will enthuse piety and purity of soul in females across Europe, and bring the mercy of God upon them. Europe will never again in history be a source of concern to the rest of humanity, and European males will remain engrossed in the delights which newfound spirituality of the Middle East will give them Liberal licence to savour behind closed walls. In short, thenceforth Eretz Israel, Russia, Islamic Europe, Asia, Africa, North and South America shall enjoy prosperity in their respective discrete geographies in an atmosphere of uninterrupted congenial harmony and peace on earth till doomsday, unmolested with each other's interference or meddling. A win-win situation for every nation on earth.
The average Umma does al quran recitation classes tajwid but theology is lacking, at least in Indonesia the largest Muslim nation. So the African Muslim diaspora would not be theologically based except in Salafi Wahabbi doctrine due to petro dollars.
The AMC if you want to call influencers “media” don’t investigate. They can be bought for a couple hundred dollars or whatever currency you wish to insert. People forget the large contingent of Jews that came from Russia and still reside there. Just because Israel is backed by the US doesn’t mean it hates Russia. Quite the opposite actually. Israel does what’s best for Israel and not pissing off as many world powers as it can keeps the arms coming as it fights for its very existence. Yemen has always been a strategic ally for Russia and has an airbase there which many in the region had concern they would be abandoning. I’d say we have the answer to that now. It’s good too as it’ll bring more stability to the region.
This in now. The garrulous entitled Swedish pampered child Greta Thurnberg now going to Gaza on "Freedom Flotilla". Good luck to her acting while the ride lasts before Hamas takes fancy of her to grab a yet another war trophy.
Yea I saw the autistic actor is headed there. I doubt she will get the heroes welcome she believes she will get but I’m sure the actors who greet her will have been compensated well in advance. Her parents are disgusting people too
Its all a circus show oiled by Petro-dollars, the perennial victimhood feigned by actresses cloaked in "Abaya" purporting to be the quintessential Islamic woman for garnering sympathy from the Ummah. ICC kangaroo prosecutor Karim Khan has shown himself to be a sexual predator and womaniser.
The ICC? You mean George Clooney’s wife Amal? I’m not sure who gave them any authority but kangaroo court is a disservice to real kangaroos as they get associated with it being such a joke. The United Nations can be added to that too.
Rexii pal, Thanks I just looked up Collins and understood. But I reassure you that your misapprehensions are unfounded. You need not fear anyone, least of all someone like me.
Putin asked US for Russia's NATO membership multiple times. Even Bill Clinton (aka Butcher of the Balkans) laughing in Putin's face after being asked, did not make Putin lose hope that one day, Russia will become an official member of NATO (aka Joint Criminal Enterprise) instead of remaining an unofficial sidekick supporting their criminal activities around the world - i.e. being a criminal by association - like helping NATO against Serbia, Armenia, Libya, Syria, Sudan, North Korea, etc.
Frankly I am not too keen on the Escobars and the Palkis of this world.
I am more interested in how Putin proposes to create his "Two States" even as babies are starved and burned to death. Clearly even as Putins wordsmiths work overtime to provide clever quotes and statements that Putin can parrot, a Single State is rapidly being created as the world and Putin looks the other way.
Pragmatism is fine, but watching babies getting slaughtered by the thousands borders on cruelty of the worst sort.
History will not be kind to Putin, who ironically leads an emotional people with empathy for the oppressed expressed through history.
Clever worded statements cannot hide Putins apathy to what is happening in Gaza and the West Bank.
Quite possibly he too is compromised like the entire Senate of the United States, and also its president, and the man incharge of the American HHS.
The average American is quite capable of looking the other way, but I never imagined the Russian on the street to be so indifferent.
I understand your genuine concern as a doctor, and in fact that should have applied to the plight of Indian's in Kuwait and Iraq in the 1990's who had been made punching posts by USA and Europe for testing depleted uranium ammunition and the strategy of starvation genocide.
Successive Indian dispensations have failed India miserably in simping and playing second fiddle to the Euro-American mass slaughter almost amounting to genocide, of their Indian compatriots by navies and airforces of USA and its EU coalition quiskings in Kuwait and Iraq in 1990 to 1991,when the European bombers and missiles carpet bombed Iraq and Kuwait with bunker buster bombs, specifically targetting Indian civilians in bunkers, buses, vans, churches, mosques, hospitals and even the chartered buses transporting Indian labourers fleeing the war zone to Amman in Jordan which was the only point permitted for evacuation flights by European militaries which had imposed a no Fly zone for all civilian aircraft in the airspace of Kuwait and Iraq. British foreign secretary Geoffrey Howe threatened to intercept any Indian plane suspected of bringing food from India to Kuwait or Iraq. The Dutch navy forcibly boarded and hijacked an Indian ship on the High seas on suspicion it was allegedly sending food to stranded Indian citizens in Kuwait in contravention of a water-tight food and oil blockade imposed on Iraq and Kuwait. In short, EU militaries subjected hundreds of thousands of Indian labourer expats stranded in the war zone, to attempted starvation genocide by first wiping out all avenues of escape from the war zone in consonance with total food blockade (ostensibly aimed at starving the Iraqi military!) followed by intense carpet bombing of a scale unprecedented worldwide since WW2. Terminal Starvation, in which the body dies an excruciatingly painful death in the grip of intractable psychosis attendant upon the body becoming forced to consume the myelin in its brain tissue after having exhausted all other body fat completely. European amphibious soldiers posted photos on porn websites for free viewing credits, with captions mocking "infidel Hindus and Muslims" for their wretched helplessness in face of certain death.
It is obvious that there has been little love lost between Europeans/Americans and Indians. The fact remains that the Russians have consistently supported my country during its times of need. The point that I was making is that regardless of the ingratitude exhibited by the Arab world, I expected more empathy from Russia in connection with the wanton slaughter of little children. The West is not too bothered. Mr Krushchev was a big man.
Mr Putin is a sincere man who is genuinely committed to the cause of world peace. He is neither the nutcase that Gorbachev was, nor a sellout to transnational oligarchs like Boris Yeltsin and Andrei Kozhyrev. But at the same time, he is also not a psychopath like the gang of Stalin, Lavrenti Pavles Beria, Matvei Berman and Heinrich Yegoda.
If Mr Putin is sometimes seen to be dithering, it is because his options are sometimes limited. Like any other President, he has to weigh in many factors before making a move, but his intentions are above suspicion. He respects Russians of all dispositions including Muslims, Buddhists, Shamanists and others, and is held in high regard and trust by Muslims of Russia from Kazan to Chechnya and Orenberg.
Arabs who are patient and can bid their time can await a whole plethora of new opportunities in fresh pastures after the inevitable sanitisation of Europe by aerial disinfectants sprayed from Oreshniks. It is only a matter of time, though no one can precisely tell at the moment how much. They can bring the civilising influence of Islam to entire communities and savour the indulgences allowed by the faith. But they will need enterprising spirit, especially for venturing in where few if any others would dare to.
One needs to be able to read between the lines for subtle hints because not all cards can be disclosed at just about every western chat platform.
India and Russia enjoy excellent rapport via direct channels of communication, and most reports in MSM which cast aspersions on those ties are driven by sinister and dishonest motives.
Mr Andrew Korybko has always voiced the disclaimer on X that his personal views are his own and should not be conflated with those of any other outlet, person or institution. In fact, when a EU warmonger originally from Poland, Karolina Goswami had made absurd but direct accusations against Mr Andrew Korybko of being an agent of Mr Putin, Mr Korybko in his response had categorically rejected such claims and clarified that he does not even purport state-jacent authority, far from being agent or mouthpiece of the Russian government. Mr Korybko's articles depict his intelligent analysis of global geopolitical developments based on perusal of multiple authenticable sources, without pretence of being privy to insider access to Mr Putin's mind. They are opinions and inferences, which do not purport to be blanket-endorsed by the Russian government, though undeniably intelligent ones at that !
Mr Putin has never expressed any "indifference" towards Gaza. Frankly, Gaza is a problem to be sorted out between Israel and the Arabs. Apparently, the Arabs have reconciled themselves to Israel's position, and hereafter there remains no scope for third countries to jump in the fray as trouble-shooters once Arabs have already patched up with Israel. Russia maintains a policy of principled neutrality for strategic reasons.
In fact, were Russia to intervene diplomatically on the side of Palestinians in a hypothetical scenario, it will not receive an ounce of gratitude from any Arab or for that matter any single non-Russian Muslim in this world. Take the example of Adil Khan Azad, an India based You-Tuber who is a darling of the Arab princes. In an interview with the woke Pragya Mishra, he categorically affirms his opinion stating that the Muslim world need not be thankful to Russia for any moral support offered by the latter to Gaza or Palestine, because Russia as a non-Muslim (read Dhimmi) nation, "has no sympathy for Muslims in its heart and does not care a fig about the plight of Al Aqsa mosque", but simply wants to "exploit" the Israel-Palestine tussle for the sake of relieving pressure on Russian forces in Ukraine by forcing European militaries opposing Russia to rolocate some of their forces in the Middle East to protect Israel".
It is an article of faith for Islamist not to ever feel gratitude for anything whatsoever towards Dhimmies, because doing so is considered trecherous disloyalty to Allah who alone is the giver of all beneficence.
In early 1950,when France एंड Britain had attacked Egypt from Cypriot bases for capturing the Suez canal, Nasser had contemplated suicide to avoid capture. But in the nick of time, Nikita Khrushchev delivered an ultimatum to Britain saying in unequivocal terms that "if the invasion did not stop within 1 hour, then the so-called Great Britain shall cease to exist." Britain literally implemented ceasefire in less than 2 minutes of receiving the ultimatum. And yet, President Sadat of Egypt returned the favour by expelling Russians from Egypt and banning cotton exports to Russia, just because Russia had failed to provide strategic backing to Sadat's adventurous escalatory plan of invading Israel. The Islamic temperament is as fickle and unpredictable as that of a wild animal held in attempted domestication. In fact, many political stalwarts in Gaza who do not belong to Hamas are seriously considering rapprochement with Israel in aftermath of an Israeli victory, and are consoling themselves with the assurance that any sin incurred from a theological standpoint by virtue of friendship with Israel, will be more than expiated by cultivating simultaneous enmity towards infidel Russia and India.
However, Russia has never fought against Houthis and Palestine, and is not a party to the Israel-Gaza and Israel-Houthi conflicts. With goodwill towards all and malice towards none.
On Jordanian news channels, you find this popular Jordanian influencer who asserts that India is not at all sincere towards Palestinians, because the volume of trade between India and Israel is reportedly more than six times the amount of financial aid that India} provides to Palestine. According to him, Indian aid to Palestine is a farce, a charade to fool Muslims.
Jordan is the closest diplomatic ally of Israel in the latter's neighbourhood, and the Queen of Jordan is a Palestinian who is adored like a mother by Palestinians living in Gaza. Apparently she does not have any issue with Israel and Gazans don't have any problem with her. Her red lipstick and bewitching wink of the eye titillates umpteen Palestinians and pacifiers their tribulations. She is the best panacea for all ills facing Palestinians. She is deeply enamoured of Israel, and Palestinians are deeply fond of her.
We also need to remember that on October 7th, Hamas slaughtered whole lots of innocent Nepalese citizens, who had been singled out because they were deemed "filthy Hindus". And several years ago, Palestinians who had hijacked a passenger plane, shot dead a Vietnamese diplomat on board. That man had been selected as a soft target for sending a message to interlocutors about the seriousness of the hijackers' intentions, eventhough communist Vietnam had never caused the slightest harm to Muslim or Arab interests. The hijackers knew they would evoke a tsunami of fallout or backlash if they were to chose an American for murder, so they handpicked a Vietnamese for strategic reasons whose life did not seem to matter anyways. Palestinians and Arabs never give weight to emotions or ethics in their dealings with Dhimmies, and likewise it is strategically unpragmatic for Dhimmies to give overmuch weightage to moral considerations of deaths of babies in dealings with Palestinians, because such compassion as a rule is slated to go unrequited.
Islamist worldview holds that any help offered by Russia, such as by way of food parcels or SC veto, to Palestine is unmeaningful until and unless Russia demonstrates sincerity by providing military support to "liberate" Al Aqsa mosque, because at the end of the day any amount of secular support is worthless from a theological perspective. Many Jews point out that their first temple stood at the spot where Al Aqsa stands today, and cite the Arabic name Aqsa as evidence, which they explain as a derivative of the older Persian name "Aksh" (>Skt अक्ष) which says "tear-drop" in Old Persian, attesting to the antiquity of the modern Jewish name for the precinct as "Wailing Wall".
Muslims are innately liable to manipulation by western strategists in the name of their religion, and they are amenable to being turned with their guns blazing like ferocious hounds even at their most benevolent benefactor at the drop of their hat. In particular, Islamist doctrine forbids goodwill towards Infidels under any circumstances or favour. The ISIS was founded by Western strategists using Turkish army officers and Saudi Hijazi Mullahs as intermediaries for scr&wing Arabs in the very cradle of Islam in the very name of their own religion. The Uieghur desperadoes of ISIS butchered countless Muslim Syrian women by stuffing smouldering embers in their spliced abdomen. And got away with such monstrosities by becoming the darlings of Saudi Arabia today, the custodian of two holy mosques. It would be imprudent of outsiders to jump in this snake pit unless one is an adept who has mastered the rules of the game.
Jordan had waged undeclared terrorist war against Russia and Chechen civilians in Chechnya in 1990's on behalf of European relatives and sponsors of the Hashemite Royal Family. During the British and European-sponsored turmoil in Chechnya, Arabs in Lebanon had torched the Russian Embassy in Beirut to exact vengeance for what they called oppression of Muslims in Chechnya.
Today, it is effectively illegal to voice the sympathy which you have expressed here for Palestinian children, in public in Saudi Arabia the quintessential archetypal Arab Islamic country, not even in Mosques. Doing so can land one up indefinitely in prison, and subject to torture. Let Palestinians sort out their issues themselves with their Arab brethren, given that Palestinians hold tremendous clout in the Gulf by dint of marital alliances with powerful Sheikhs.
Saudi Arabia and its Gulf satellites are in clandestine talks with USA for nuclear co-operation and countenance of limited nuclear weapon capability (ala Pakistan) as countervail to deter Iran. Even after 1300 years of Islamisation of the latter, Saudi Bedouins seem disinclined to admit Iran as one of their "own", and consider it a worse enemy than Israel for racial reasons. I think it would be foolhardy for a non-Muslim state to step into the shoes of Iran in zeal for beneficence towards Arabs or Muslims, because Islamists are taught from tender age that favours done by Dhimmies must be reciprocated only by positive harm to the benefactor, in order to prove to Allah that the recipient of benefaction has not allowed his loyalty to Allah get diluted under sway of gratitude to an infidel.
Mainstream media outlets closely affiliated with European and American news magnates are the ones who have been peddling fake narratives of a nexus between Houthis and Russia to a far greater and blatantly outrageous degree than Alt Media celebrities such as Pepe Escobar.
For example, listen to this video aired by Palki Sharma Upadhyaye of First Post which operates in India and the USA, in which the seasoned anti-Russia propagandist and inveterate liar Palki suggests Russia is goading Houthis into attacks on Western commercial shipping liners in the Red Sea, and goes on to call such an alleged liason as a "risky gamble" on part of Russia.
Please note that this video is more than 2 years old, so this propaganda has been alive and kicking on MSM for at least that long, and is by no means an ALT MEDIA innovation.
Eyes and ears cannot tell lies, and First Post is no fan of ALT MEDIA.
Unfortunately, media outlets such as Firstpost and Wion which are hedge fronts for infiltration into India by Western oligarchic media dons, acting through front end priestcrafty mascots like Palki Sharma, often purport to be unofficial spokespersons of Indian foreign policy, and succeed in misleading many innocent viewers in Africa and Asia into developing strong anti-Russia opinions. The exact complex pattern of shareholder ownership in Firstpost is not common knowledge, nor is this info publically accessible. As a result, many viewers get tricked into mistaking these channels as sane alternatives to the oligarchic segment of western media. They profess the dignified decorum of a mainstream channel, but perform worse than Alt Media in crossing the limits of falsehood and deceit in duping their viewers. Sadly, Palki has been tauted as posterwoman of strategic global outreach initiatives of the Indian government such as Raisina dialogue (of Sanjoy Joshi infamy, the muddle-head interviewer who had sought to belittle and ridicule Mr Lavrov in person) and has cultivated previliged closeness with likes of Indian Foreign minister Subrahmaniam Jaishankar at Public fora where she has been the star anchor or convener. Such imposters have never been nudged into clearing the air about their purported pretentions to insider access into Indian Policymaking circles and being voice of India. Infact, their subtle propaganda has had the undesirable influence of inducing subconscious bias even in the mind of Indian PM Modi leading the latter to register polite protest personally with Mr Putin against missile strikes on Children's hospital in Ukraine wrongly supposed to have been conducted by Russia, whilst being unmindful of the double whammy of carpet bombing and attempted starvation genocide wrought by EU countries upon a hundred thousand Indian expat labourers stranded in Kuwait and Iraq in 1990 - 1991.
Palki in her stints as the Face of Wion and Firstpost, had cheerled and applauded the Mafiosi attempts by Zelensky to recruit Indians through blackmail into the Azov militia vide the Georgia training camp; she had spewn fictitious, libelous and scandalous allegations about private life of Mr Putin which were separately aired by Firstpost America's Black anchor as well ; Palki had mouthed racist lies about North Korean soldiers splurging on porn in Russia.
Palki is simply the FRONT END face, albeit a 'state-jacent' one at that who impersonates "India" by inneundo, of these corpomaniac entities like Firstpost which have consistently featured an irrationally staunch anti-Russian bias based on lies and confabulations. It is ironic that many in the Global South had mistaken these hedge-fronts of western corporate giants belonging to the deep state genre, to be authentic voices of Indian public opinion, but reality has lately been dawning upon thinking disillusioned readers by the passing day.
I agree that they're also guilty of this, but members of the Alt-Media Community don't really pay them much attention, while many take as the gospel whatever Pepe claims.
He has a responsibility as an openly state-adjacent influencer (he knows Lavrov, Zakharova, Glazyev, etc.) to explain state policy even if he disagrees with it, not discredit it.
By putting his own interests first as he always does, he regularly misleads people about Russian policy, and the result is that they're more divorced from reality than ever now.
Also, while I didn't save the links at the time, the false claims of a Russian-Houthi nexus far precede the example that you showed.
It's so deeply ingrained in Alt-Media discourse that it's practically a matter of dogma nowadays.
I've been in this industry since late 2013 and have closely followed all the main Alt-Media trends.
I know exactly what I'm talking about, and this obsession with pretending that Russia is allied with the Resistance Axis has been going on since 2014-2015.
In any case, Pepe is been wrong about so much, all of which he always casually passes off as fact. I consider it highly irresponsible and a violation of basic professional norms for someone in his position.
You probably like him, after all, you're making an effort to defend him, but he's an infamous fabulist who only tells people what they want to hear. He used to be a real journalist and analyst but that was long ago.
The super-feudalist oligarchic deep state which has come to wield water-tight extraconstitutional suzerainty over the executive and judiciary in much of Euro Merica, after having systematically disenfranchised the sane populace and irrecoverably transmogrified democratic institutions, is now trying to ready the naive common folk of Europe to jump on the bandwagon of holocaustic invasive civilisational assault on Russia under the reassuring illusion that actual victory in a all out nuclear assault on Russia is an achievable with current level of sophistication of European military technology. But as if this absurd illusion is not enough for goading European serfs into willingly become expendable cannon-fodder of war, the deep state is also leaving nothing to chance by jettisoning the civilisational animosity towards India which runs deep in the European Viking subconscious since the days of Neanderthal neolithism, and redirecting it in full frenzied throttle towards Russia by positing that Russia is actually an aberration on the sacred Christian soil of Europe, an outpost implanted by Vedic India in remote antiquity for pillaging and siphoning off the wealth of Europe. A pertinent quote from a modern war manual which form recommended reading for western military strategists, a tome titled " Forgotten Antiquities of the Saffron menace, Vedic India in Europe", reads thus, "Beneath their skin deep Christian disguise, the Russian hordes have always borne the ignominy of barbarous saffron blood coursing in their veins".
It goes without saying that how Europe will deal with its real bete noir, India, after having done with Russia is anybody's guess in light of the foregoing info.
Although the deep state's tall claim of possessing capability to decimate Russia and actually emerge victorious in a concerted nuclear invasion of Russia without having to endure MAD is a plain exaggeration under the current levels of technological prowess and military hardware inventory, it is equally true that EU bigwigs have been making consistent effort to pump all of the wealth, which they are draining with both hands in the deep from actual wealth generating economies in Asia through an ever stifling rapacious regime of resource-pilfering patents and IPRs, into the gargantuan war effort to achieve the ambition of overwhelming technological superiority over Russia. Missile shields such as the American golden dome are also in the offing in Europe. All the same, the superb strategy is to keep target countries such as India dozed in indifferent slumber without the slightest clue of this impending state of affairs, and especially to brow eat India against joining hands with Russia towards joint
economic emancipation, by dangling the threat of sanctions for non-compliance. This strategy is a fig leaf from the strategy employed by Saracens in 600 AD when they suddenly overran the peninsula and realms beyond, by invading the numerous small
neighbouring principalities sequentially one at a time, but making a horrible example of the civilian populace of defeated countries via trademark excruciating torture, so as to serve as an example
to all neighbours, potential targets for annexation, against mustering the daredevilry to even contemplate resisting calls for surrender in the first place. Russia has understood that it must aim for total vertical and horizontal integration of its manufacturing prowess if it is to survive an EU embargo and blockade. Thankfully this is a doable because India and Russia collectively are amply endowed with every known mineral, agricultural and human resource! The overall game plan of European
deep state consists in unleashing its handmaiden the ISIS, controlled via Turkish intermediaries loyal to NATO, on India for mass street slaughter to sanitise Indian defences and maul Indian society as a harbinger of subsequent direct invasion using ICBM's. Europe is trying every trick in its resource book to disincentive India and Russia from organising themselves into an economic coalition for preemption of the fate that would result from the sordid plans Europe has in store for them.
No, I am neither a fan nor a regular reader of this gentleman named Pepe Escobar and am in no position to vouch safe for him because I am not even much familiar with his writings.
But my point is that the audacity of western MSM in peddling the Houthi-Russia nexus has been of a degree which is outright criminal. And this narrative of the MSM provides fodder and butress to Resistance afficionadoes in the Alt Media, in a positive feedback circle. As you have pointed out, MSM has been at this mischief for more than the 2 yrs I just pointed in the aforegoing. Reverse Potem kinism is being practised by some western oligarchist MSM outlets with malice towards Russia, for I flaming public opinion against Russia through blatant lies. The following are some comments from erudite readers which had been shadow banned by Palki on the Firstpost video I mentioned hereafore, but were saved by me before they went offline.
Pulki Sharma Upadhye has joined forces with the EU warmongers by lamenting the unmolested passage of Russian commercial liners plying the Red Sea. It is almost as if Palki is wishing that those Russian ships get bombed, so that Russia might taste vengeance for defying the illicit diktats of the EU which wants to monopolise international shipping by projecting the unconstitutional overreach of European sanctions regime on India and Russia.
(European Union deep state has threatened to punish Indian companies which finance or deal in any way with ships bringing oil from Russia to India.)
Moreover, one is led to suspect that Pulki is conveying a discreet threat to Russia on behalf of her western corpomaniac string-puller paymasters to join the American naval coalition patrols or else face another Bay of Pigs style false flag fire-bombing of Russian ships at the hands of the Pentagon or NATO.
The pervert Pulki or Pickly Shawrma Upadiyee is expressing anguish by innuendo at the fact that Russian ships have remained unscathed from attacks thus far. Her question namely 'whether Russia is immune to Houthi attacks' is in no less bad taste than the hypothetical question of whether Palki is immune to gang rape at the hands of American kids in New York. The same God who has protected Palki from rape, is protecting Russian ships. I believe there is an even more sinister connotation to Palki's uncharitable observation made in a tone of sardonic lament. Could it be that Palki is wishing the terrible to befall Russia, something the priest crafters call by the name "curse", or Alternatively could it be that Pickly is delivering a veiled or discreet warning to Russia on behalf of the deep state of Europe and America, to join the bandwagon of anti-Iranian coalition of Pentagon and NATO navies or else face a Bay of Pigs style false flag bombing of Russian ships by the American side? What a terribly disgusting woman !....If you watch Palki's earlier podcasts, you will notice how she was unhappy about the Northern or Arctic Sea Route lane envisaged by Russia, for which Icebreakers had already been deployed, when Palki tried to portray the whole enterprise as an imperialist or irredentist venture, despite the fact that the trajectory of that route lies wholly within Russian territorial waters and exclusive economic zone. Pulki was lamenting that Russia will "probably" charge fees from ships plying that sea lane, as if this in itself is some sort of extortion. Palki only pretends to speak for India and only feigns or fakes nationalist pretentions while astutely undermining Indian strategic national interests with the subtle propaganda style of The BBC. Her position on varied subjects is diametrically opposite the official stance of the Indian government, yet Pulki pretends to be privy to insider access to policy making circles in Delhi. An imposter who impersonates India with the motive of bringing India a bad name and destroying its credibility and hard earned reputation in the Global South."
It is not unusual for Palki to air vicious opinions in many other of podcasts, which are soul- revolting and outrage the sensibilities of many a sensible and virtuous person. For instance, she has bemoaned that Russian ships have been plying the seas unmolested while some other countries have not managed to remain unscathed from pirate attacks; and then she poses the vicious question as to whether Russia is selectively immune to attacks from Houthis. Palki is discreetly suggesting a nexus or collusion between Russia and Houthis in matters of alleged high-sea piracy. Not having been a victim is no ground for holding a person culpable for complicity in a putative crime. The malicious question posed by Palki is no less deprecable than the hypothetical question of whether Palki herself is immune to rape at the hands of male kids in New York. The mindset behind Palki's outbursts is disgusting, to say the least."
The aforegoing paragraphs relate just some of the salient ones of many erudite comments shadow-banned by PulkEye with the motive of foisting a one-sided perspective on public discourse.
The problem is that the likes of Palki are often made star anchors at international outreach symposia sponsored by
Indian government such as Raisinia Dialogue, and no attempt is made to ever nudge them towards reality. Pulki has been "close" to the likes of Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar and other policy hunchos in the sense of having assumed role of star convener at platforms nurtured by them for interface with global corporatedom and civil society. Palki postures herself by innuendo as voice of official Indian policy and as someone privy to previlged insider access to Indian policy-making circles.
My point about rampant and dishonest anti-Russianism in Western MSM and its regional surrogates masquerading under local identities in South Asia, does not in any way detract from the undesirability of Potemkinism as it pertains to abetting misleading narratives espoused by ALT Media.
Problem is that the likes of Firstpost (owned partly by Ambani tycoon group) and Wion(of Zee group) which are hedge fronts for mouth piecing Western media narratives, (complex chain of ownership traces to Euro American corporate strings of WLmbt kind) used to have substantial viewership in Asia and Africa. Firstpost publishes from the US, South Africa and India. Lately it seems to have lost much of its following because people are increasingly being able to see through the tireless though subtle anti-Russia slant.
Palki in her stints as the Face of Wion and Firstpost, had cheerled and applauded the Mafiosi attempts by Zelensky to recruit Indians through blackmail into the Azov militia vide the Georgia training camp; she had spewn fictitious, libelous and scandalous allegations about private life of Mr Putin which were separately aired by Firstpost America's Black anchor as well ; Palki had mouthed racist lies about North Korean soldiers splurging on porn in Russia.
Palki is simply the FRONT END face of these corpomaniac entities like Firstpost which have consistently featured an irrationally staunch anti-Russian bias based on lies and confabulations. It is ironic that many in the Global South had mistaken these hedge-fronts of western corporate giants belonging to the deep state genre, to be authentic voices of Indian public opinion, but reality has lately been dawning upon thinking disillusioned readers by the passing day.
Listening to Alexander Mckay talking about the Russian comprador class and the pressure which they are placing on Putin. Putin is first and foremost a pragmatist. I think many alt media folks forget that.
Like Nasrallah said, Russia is not part of the Axis of Resistance.
The current leadership grew up in a USSR where there was tolerance oppressive relations, and relations between states are tough. That is why both China and Russia voted for economic war against DPRK and Iran at the UNSC. Even Rohani's Iran left Damascus without an embassador for two years. It's tough.
The reality is that Yemen is divided. The interests of Aden and those of Sanaa are different.
Russia, like the USA, has a powerful Zionist lobby. Not as strong as that of the USA but it is nevertheless largely in control of the media. Just look at how many Jews have programs on Russia's main TV channels. Look at how many Israelis are Russian-speakers. Putin cannot afford to ignore them.
An excellent antidote to the “Russia Resistance Axis” fantasy, Andrew.
Thank you!
Geopolitically, I see multiple reasons to behave this way. (1) to soften tension with the West. (2) to reduce collateral damage to Israel. Not out of love for Russian Jews living in the US, but for the Jewish influences on the US. (3) to keep a good relationship with GCC. For OPEC to align more with BRICS or Russian interests, Russia cannot afford to let KSA drift too close toward the US. Whether Israel will attack Iran also has some dependence on the Gulf Countries' attitude. (3) The UN-recognized Yemeni government is likely Sunni (not sure) and historically aligned with KSA. I think two separate states are better than a single state constantly in civil war. When the climate is right, I think Russia would have no problem recognizing Houthis as a legitimate but separate government. I do suspect another international player might be popping up the Houthis.
As for Pepe, I listened to him twice, then I shut off. I consider him a lefty romanticist. He would be a great conversationalist when you have the time and luxury to puff a cigar and sip champagne while talking about all kinds of subjects all over the world. Then you wake up and go home to resume your normal daily lives. Many things he says are in the right direction, but the exact details tend to be off. His predictions about the greatness of BRICS are obvious examples.
As for Pepe, I listened to him twice, then I shut off. I consider him a lefty romanticist. He would be a great conversationalist when you have the time and luxury to puff a cigar and sip champagne while talking about all kinds of subjects all over the world. Then you wake up and go home to resume your normal daily lives. Many things he says are in the right direction, but the exact details tend to be off. His predictions about the greatness of BRICS are obvious examples.
Nicely put just don't agree on the value coming from listening to his romanticism.
Well explained, Mr Nakayama.
The emergence of Eretz Israel is a foregone conclusion, now with Hamas practically on deathbed and the Resistance effectively on ventilator, and bastions or cradles of Islam ruled over by the Hashemite king of Amman descended from Muhammad's Quraish clan and bewitching Scandinavian females, as well as the custodian of two holiest mosques of Islam together with his Bedouin satellites on Persian Gulf littoral being firmly on board with Israel vide the Abrahamic accords. After all, Eretz Israel is the promise made by Hashem Most High to the Patriarch, and no power on earth can undo its unfolding!
But the inevitability of unrest which these developments will foment amongst huge sections of Arab populace in the vast expanse from Muscat and Somalia to the Atlas mountains, a continuum which British cartographers have described as a map having the likeness of a Welsh terrier pup, cannot be overstated. In the interests of long term peace and global stability, it is imperative to seek solutions that pacify all and unsettle no one.
A likely solution is to be found in the writings of a medieval Islamic seer, who had prophesied the coming of an Islamic Empire in Europe, because apparently Allah had ordained so.
With the possibility of Oreshniks and Sarmats raining bouquets on European capitals now looming at an all time high over the horizon, it is about time for that prophesy to materialise, with almost total voluntary transfer of Bedouin, Berber North African and Tuareg populations from the Arab lands enmasse to Europe, in the vanguard or trail of goodwill visits by Oreshniks. The exceptional adaptability of the said populace to irradiated soil and its penchant for merriment in company of white mermaids cannot be overemphasised. A Europe subject to the tender mercies and immaculate wisdom of Islam will rise to glory with the temper of scientific renaissance that had characterised the heyday of the early medieval Arab Islamic empire with its capital at Baghdad. After that, there shall prevail lasting peace in all corners of the earth for a thousand years, all surviving nations and peoples shall know happiness and ultimate contentment and freedom from unsatiated want till doomsday. Discipline nurtured by the Shariat will enthuse piety and purity of soul in females across Europe, and bring the mercy of God upon them. Europe will never again in history be a source of concern to the rest of humanity, and European males will remain engrossed in the delights which newfound spirituality of the Middle East will give them Liberal licence to savour behind closed walls. In short, thenceforth Eretz Israel, Russia, Islamic Europe, Asia, Africa, North and South America shall enjoy prosperity in their respective discrete geographies in an atmosphere of uninterrupted congenial harmony and peace on earth till doomsday, unmolested with each other's interference or meddling. A win-win situation for every nation on earth.
The average Umma does al quran recitation classes tajwid but theology is lacking, at least in Indonesia the largest Muslim nation. So the African Muslim diaspora would not be theologically based except in Salafi Wahabbi doctrine due to petro dollars.
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Tl;Dr AMC largely live in a fantasy world. So does the MSM, just a different world.
The AMC if you want to call influencers “media” don’t investigate. They can be bought for a couple hundred dollars or whatever currency you wish to insert. People forget the large contingent of Jews that came from Russia and still reside there. Just because Israel is backed by the US doesn’t mean it hates Russia. Quite the opposite actually. Israel does what’s best for Israel and not pissing off as many world powers as it can keeps the arms coming as it fights for its very existence. Yemen has always been a strategic ally for Russia and has an airbase there which many in the region had concern they would be abandoning. I’d say we have the answer to that now. It’s good too as it’ll bring more stability to the region.
This in now. The garrulous entitled Swedish pampered child Greta Thurnberg now going to Gaza on "Freedom Flotilla". Good luck to her acting while the ride lasts before Hamas takes fancy of her to grab a yet another war trophy.
Yea I saw the autistic actor is headed there. I doubt she will get the heroes welcome she believes she will get but I’m sure the actors who greet her will have been compensated well in advance. Her parents are disgusting people too
Its all a circus show oiled by Petro-dollars, the perennial victimhood feigned by actresses cloaked in "Abaya" purporting to be the quintessential Islamic woman for garnering sympathy from the Ummah. ICC kangaroo prosecutor Karim Khan has shown himself to be a sexual predator and womaniser.
The ICC? You mean George Clooney’s wife Amal? I’m not sure who gave them any authority but kangaroo court is a disservice to real kangaroos as they get associated with it being such a joke. The United Nations can be added to that too.
Yes the simpy Stone aged Akkadian clone in feminist disguise. It is an insult to Kangaroos being ridiculously compared with her.
Lmao
Rexii, Could you please translate that poem of yours into Hindi language ?
Rexii pal, Thanks I just looked up Collins and understood. But I reassure you that your misapprehensions are unfounded. You need not fear anyone, least of all someone like me.
It would be great if Russia and China operated a "Joint Naval Base" in Aden.
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Putin asked US for Russia's NATO membership multiple times. Even Bill Clinton (aka Butcher of the Balkans) laughing in Putin's face after being asked, did not make Putin lose hope that one day, Russia will become an official member of NATO (aka Joint Criminal Enterprise) instead of remaining an unofficial sidekick supporting their criminal activities around the world - i.e. being a criminal by association - like helping NATO against Serbia, Armenia, Libya, Syria, Sudan, North Korea, etc.
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Frankly I am not too keen on the Escobars and the Palkis of this world.
I am more interested in how Putin proposes to create his "Two States" even as babies are starved and burned to death. Clearly even as Putins wordsmiths work overtime to provide clever quotes and statements that Putin can parrot, a Single State is rapidly being created as the world and Putin looks the other way.
Pragmatism is fine, but watching babies getting slaughtered by the thousands borders on cruelty of the worst sort.
History will not be kind to Putin, who ironically leads an emotional people with empathy for the oppressed expressed through history.
Clever worded statements cannot hide Putins apathy to what is happening in Gaza and the West Bank.
Quite possibly he too is compromised like the entire Senate of the United States, and also its president, and the man incharge of the American HHS.
The average American is quite capable of looking the other way, but I never imagined the Russian on the street to be so indifferent.
I understand your genuine concern as a doctor, and in fact that should have applied to the plight of Indian's in Kuwait and Iraq in the 1990's who had been made punching posts by USA and Europe for testing depleted uranium ammunition and the strategy of starvation genocide.
Successive Indian dispensations have failed India miserably in simping and playing second fiddle to the Euro-American mass slaughter almost amounting to genocide, of their Indian compatriots by navies and airforces of USA and its EU coalition quiskings in Kuwait and Iraq in 1990 to 1991,when the European bombers and missiles carpet bombed Iraq and Kuwait with bunker buster bombs, specifically targetting Indian civilians in bunkers, buses, vans, churches, mosques, hospitals and even the chartered buses transporting Indian labourers fleeing the war zone to Amman in Jordan which was the only point permitted for evacuation flights by European militaries which had imposed a no Fly zone for all civilian aircraft in the airspace of Kuwait and Iraq. British foreign secretary Geoffrey Howe threatened to intercept any Indian plane suspected of bringing food from India to Kuwait or Iraq. The Dutch navy forcibly boarded and hijacked an Indian ship on the High seas on suspicion it was allegedly sending food to stranded Indian citizens in Kuwait in contravention of a water-tight food and oil blockade imposed on Iraq and Kuwait. In short, EU militaries subjected hundreds of thousands of Indian labourer expats stranded in the war zone, to attempted starvation genocide by first wiping out all avenues of escape from the war zone in consonance with total food blockade (ostensibly aimed at starving the Iraqi military!) followed by intense carpet bombing of a scale unprecedented worldwide since WW2. Terminal Starvation, in which the body dies an excruciatingly painful death in the grip of intractable psychosis attendant upon the body becoming forced to consume the myelin in its brain tissue after having exhausted all other body fat completely. European amphibious soldiers posted photos on porn websites for free viewing credits, with captions mocking "infidel Hindus and Muslims" for their wretched helplessness in face of certain death.
It is obvious that there has been little love lost between Europeans/Americans and Indians. The fact remains that the Russians have consistently supported my country during its times of need. The point that I was making is that regardless of the ingratitude exhibited by the Arab world, I expected more empathy from Russia in connection with the wanton slaughter of little children. The West is not too bothered. Mr Krushchev was a big man.
Mr Putin at the address of the honourable Chief Mufti.
https://youtu.be/DQrVW4UyJXM?si=-ZGjkW-2yG9SFTDv
“It is impossible to break Russia .”
History has repeatedly shown this.
Mr Putin is a sincere man who is genuinely committed to the cause of world peace. He is neither the nutcase that Gorbachev was, nor a sellout to transnational oligarchs like Boris Yeltsin and Andrei Kozhyrev. But at the same time, he is also not a psychopath like the gang of Stalin, Lavrenti Pavles Beria, Matvei Berman and Heinrich Yegoda.
If Mr Putin is sometimes seen to be dithering, it is because his options are sometimes limited. Like any other President, he has to weigh in many factors before making a move, but his intentions are above suspicion. He respects Russians of all dispositions including Muslims, Buddhists, Shamanists and others, and is held in high regard and trust by Muslims of Russia from Kazan to Chechnya and Orenberg.
Arabs who are patient and can bid their time can await a whole plethora of new opportunities in fresh pastures after the inevitable sanitisation of Europe by aerial disinfectants sprayed from Oreshniks. It is only a matter of time, though no one can precisely tell at the moment how much. They can bring the civilising influence of Islam to entire communities and savour the indulgences allowed by the faith. But they will need enterprising spirit, especially for venturing in where few if any others would dare to.
One needs to be able to read between the lines for subtle hints because not all cards can be disclosed at just about every western chat platform.
India and Russia enjoy excellent rapport via direct channels of communication, and most reports in MSM which cast aspersions on those ties are driven by sinister and dishonest motives.
Mr Andrew Korybko has always voiced the disclaimer on X that his personal views are his own and should not be conflated with those of any other outlet, person or institution. In fact, when a EU warmonger originally from Poland, Karolina Goswami had made absurd but direct accusations against Mr Andrew Korybko of being an agent of Mr Putin, Mr Korybko in his response had categorically rejected such claims and clarified that he does not even purport state-jacent authority, far from being agent or mouthpiece of the Russian government. Mr Korybko's articles depict his intelligent analysis of global geopolitical developments based on perusal of multiple authenticable sources, without pretence of being privy to insider access to Mr Putin's mind. They are opinions and inferences, which do not purport to be blanket-endorsed by the Russian government, though undeniably intelligent ones at that !
Mr Putin has never expressed any "indifference" towards Gaza. Frankly, Gaza is a problem to be sorted out between Israel and the Arabs. Apparently, the Arabs have reconciled themselves to Israel's position, and hereafter there remains no scope for third countries to jump in the fray as trouble-shooters once Arabs have already patched up with Israel. Russia maintains a policy of principled neutrality for strategic reasons.
In fact, were Russia to intervene diplomatically on the side of Palestinians in a hypothetical scenario, it will not receive an ounce of gratitude from any Arab or for that matter any single non-Russian Muslim in this world. Take the example of Adil Khan Azad, an India based You-Tuber who is a darling of the Arab princes. In an interview with the woke Pragya Mishra, he categorically affirms his opinion stating that the Muslim world need not be thankful to Russia for any moral support offered by the latter to Gaza or Palestine, because Russia as a non-Muslim (read Dhimmi) nation, "has no sympathy for Muslims in its heart and does not care a fig about the plight of Al Aqsa mosque", but simply wants to "exploit" the Israel-Palestine tussle for the sake of relieving pressure on Russian forces in Ukraine by forcing European militaries opposing Russia to rolocate some of their forces in the Middle East to protect Israel".
It is an article of faith for Islamist not to ever feel gratitude for anything whatsoever towards Dhimmies, because doing so is considered trecherous disloyalty to Allah who alone is the giver of all beneficence.
In early 1950,when France एंड Britain had attacked Egypt from Cypriot bases for capturing the Suez canal, Nasser had contemplated suicide to avoid capture. But in the nick of time, Nikita Khrushchev delivered an ultimatum to Britain saying in unequivocal terms that "if the invasion did not stop within 1 hour, then the so-called Great Britain shall cease to exist." Britain literally implemented ceasefire in less than 2 minutes of receiving the ultimatum. And yet, President Sadat of Egypt returned the favour by expelling Russians from Egypt and banning cotton exports to Russia, just because Russia had failed to provide strategic backing to Sadat's adventurous escalatory plan of invading Israel. The Islamic temperament is as fickle and unpredictable as that of a wild animal held in attempted domestication. In fact, many political stalwarts in Gaza who do not belong to Hamas are seriously considering rapprochement with Israel in aftermath of an Israeli victory, and are consoling themselves with the assurance that any sin incurred from a theological standpoint by virtue of friendship with Israel, will be more than expiated by cultivating simultaneous enmity towards infidel Russia and India.
However, Russia has never fought against Houthis and Palestine, and is not a party to the Israel-Gaza and Israel-Houthi conflicts. With goodwill towards all and malice towards none.
On Jordanian news channels, you find this popular Jordanian influencer who asserts that India is not at all sincere towards Palestinians, because the volume of trade between India and Israel is reportedly more than six times the amount of financial aid that India} provides to Palestine. According to him, Indian aid to Palestine is a farce, a charade to fool Muslims.
Jordan is the closest diplomatic ally of Israel in the latter's neighbourhood, and the Queen of Jordan is a Palestinian who is adored like a mother by Palestinians living in Gaza. Apparently she does not have any issue with Israel and Gazans don't have any problem with her. Her red lipstick and bewitching wink of the eye titillates umpteen Palestinians and pacifiers their tribulations. She is the best panacea for all ills facing Palestinians. She is deeply enamoured of Israel, and Palestinians are deeply fond of her.
We also need to remember that on October 7th, Hamas slaughtered whole lots of innocent Nepalese citizens, who had been singled out because they were deemed "filthy Hindus". And several years ago, Palestinians who had hijacked a passenger plane, shot dead a Vietnamese diplomat on board. That man had been selected as a soft target for sending a message to interlocutors about the seriousness of the hijackers' intentions, eventhough communist Vietnam had never caused the slightest harm to Muslim or Arab interests. The hijackers knew they would evoke a tsunami of fallout or backlash if they were to chose an American for murder, so they handpicked a Vietnamese for strategic reasons whose life did not seem to matter anyways. Palestinians and Arabs never give weight to emotions or ethics in their dealings with Dhimmies, and likewise it is strategically unpragmatic for Dhimmies to give overmuch weightage to moral considerations of deaths of babies in dealings with Palestinians, because such compassion as a rule is slated to go unrequited.
Islamist worldview holds that any help offered by Russia, such as by way of food parcels or SC veto, to Palestine is unmeaningful until and unless Russia demonstrates sincerity by providing military support to "liberate" Al Aqsa mosque, because at the end of the day any amount of secular support is worthless from a theological perspective. Many Jews point out that their first temple stood at the spot where Al Aqsa stands today, and cite the Arabic name Aqsa as evidence, which they explain as a derivative of the older Persian name "Aksh" (>Skt अक्ष) which says "tear-drop" in Old Persian, attesting to the antiquity of the modern Jewish name for the precinct as "Wailing Wall".
Muslims are innately liable to manipulation by western strategists in the name of their religion, and they are amenable to being turned with their guns blazing like ferocious hounds even at their most benevolent benefactor at the drop of their hat. In particular, Islamist doctrine forbids goodwill towards Infidels under any circumstances or favour. The ISIS was founded by Western strategists using Turkish army officers and Saudi Hijazi Mullahs as intermediaries for scr&wing Arabs in the very cradle of Islam in the very name of their own religion. The Uieghur desperadoes of ISIS butchered countless Muslim Syrian women by stuffing smouldering embers in their spliced abdomen. And got away with such monstrosities by becoming the darlings of Saudi Arabia today, the custodian of two holy mosques. It would be imprudent of outsiders to jump in this snake pit unless one is an adept who has mastered the rules of the game.
Jordan had waged undeclared terrorist war against Russia and Chechen civilians in Chechnya in 1990's on behalf of European relatives and sponsors of the Hashemite Royal Family. During the British and European-sponsored turmoil in Chechnya, Arabs in Lebanon had torched the Russian Embassy in Beirut to exact vengeance for what they called oppression of Muslims in Chechnya.
Today, it is effectively illegal to voice the sympathy which you have expressed here for Palestinian children, in public in Saudi Arabia the quintessential archetypal Arab Islamic country, not even in Mosques. Doing so can land one up indefinitely in prison, and subject to torture. Let Palestinians sort out their issues themselves with their Arab brethren, given that Palestinians hold tremendous clout in the Gulf by dint of marital alliances with powerful Sheikhs.
Saudi Arabia and its Gulf satellites are in clandestine talks with USA for nuclear co-operation and countenance of limited nuclear weapon capability (ala Pakistan) as countervail to deter Iran. Even after 1300 years of Islamisation of the latter, Saudi Bedouins seem disinclined to admit Iran as one of their "own", and consider it a worse enemy than Israel for racial reasons. I think it would be foolhardy for a non-Muslim state to step into the shoes of Iran in zeal for beneficence towards Arabs or Muslims, because Islamists are taught from tender age that favours done by Dhimmies must be reciprocated only by positive harm to the benefactor, in order to prove to Allah that the recipient of benefaction has not allowed his loyalty to Allah get diluted under sway of gratitude to an infidel.
Mainstream media outlets closely affiliated with European and American news magnates are the ones who have been peddling fake narratives of a nexus between Houthis and Russia to a far greater and blatantly outrageous degree than Alt Media celebrities such as Pepe Escobar.
For example, listen to this video aired by Palki Sharma Upadhyaye of First Post which operates in India and the USA, in which the seasoned anti-Russia propagandist and inveterate liar Palki suggests Russia is goading Houthis into attacks on Western commercial shipping liners in the Red Sea, and goes on to call such an alleged liason as a "risky gamble" on part of Russia.
Please note that this video is more than 2 years old, so this propaganda has been alive and kicking on MSM for at least that long, and is by no means an ALT MEDIA innovation.
Eyes and ears cannot tell lies, and First Post is no fan of ALT MEDIA.
https://youtu.be/AW90p_dMALY?si=kt75AtXUWG0e39I1
Unfortunately, media outlets such as Firstpost and Wion which are hedge fronts for infiltration into India by Western oligarchic media dons, acting through front end priestcrafty mascots like Palki Sharma, often purport to be unofficial spokespersons of Indian foreign policy, and succeed in misleading many innocent viewers in Africa and Asia into developing strong anti-Russia opinions. The exact complex pattern of shareholder ownership in Firstpost is not common knowledge, nor is this info publically accessible. As a result, many viewers get tricked into mistaking these channels as sane alternatives to the oligarchic segment of western media. They profess the dignified decorum of a mainstream channel, but perform worse than Alt Media in crossing the limits of falsehood and deceit in duping their viewers. Sadly, Palki has been tauted as posterwoman of strategic global outreach initiatives of the Indian government such as Raisina dialogue (of Sanjoy Joshi infamy, the muddle-head interviewer who had sought to belittle and ridicule Mr Lavrov in person) and has cultivated previliged closeness with likes of Indian Foreign minister Subrahmaniam Jaishankar at Public fora where she has been the star anchor or convener. Such imposters have never been nudged into clearing the air about their purported pretentions to insider access into Indian Policymaking circles and being voice of India. Infact, their subtle propaganda has had the undesirable influence of inducing subconscious bias even in the mind of Indian PM Modi leading the latter to register polite protest personally with Mr Putin against missile strikes on Children's hospital in Ukraine wrongly supposed to have been conducted by Russia, whilst being unmindful of the double whammy of carpet bombing and attempted starvation genocide wrought by EU countries upon a hundred thousand Indian expat labourers stranded in Kuwait and Iraq in 1990 - 1991.
https://youtu.be/ZsoiDLFuSw4?si=p9EX-2SRHLF_QdD8
https://youtu.be/hN_I84jxSdA?si=EJ6tXvPoODIshI6N
https://youtu.be/d0eqajVIUlE?si=EEqe7g0KvNx5QXu
https://youtu.be/AaTQiFDKb-M?si=IQyRt_QbYsUvEgi9
https://youtu.be/Z37HAQTdolo?si=6pk0NGFjBDx4SJL6
https://youtu.be/WFwjgzTBQKE?si=mp7r7Okn6VcfhxcK
Palki in her stints as the Face of Wion and Firstpost, had cheerled and applauded the Mafiosi attempts by Zelensky to recruit Indians through blackmail into the Azov militia vide the Georgia training camp; she had spewn fictitious, libelous and scandalous allegations about private life of Mr Putin which were separately aired by Firstpost America's Black anchor as well ; Palki had mouthed racist lies about North Korean soldiers splurging on porn in Russia.
Palki is simply the FRONT END face, albeit a 'state-jacent' one at that who impersonates "India" by inneundo, of these corpomaniac entities like Firstpost which have consistently featured an irrationally staunch anti-Russian bias based on lies and confabulations. It is ironic that many in the Global South had mistaken these hedge-fronts of western corporate giants belonging to the deep state genre, to be authentic voices of Indian public opinion, but reality has lately been dawning upon thinking disillusioned readers by the passing day.
I agree that they're also guilty of this, but members of the Alt-Media Community don't really pay them much attention, while many take as the gospel whatever Pepe claims.
He has a responsibility as an openly state-adjacent influencer (he knows Lavrov, Zakharova, Glazyev, etc.) to explain state policy even if he disagrees with it, not discredit it.
By putting his own interests first as he always does, he regularly misleads people about Russian policy, and the result is that they're more divorced from reality than ever now.
Also, while I didn't save the links at the time, the false claims of a Russian-Houthi nexus far precede the example that you showed.
It's so deeply ingrained in Alt-Media discourse that it's practically a matter of dogma nowadays.
I've been in this industry since late 2013 and have closely followed all the main Alt-Media trends.
I know exactly what I'm talking about, and this obsession with pretending that Russia is allied with the Resistance Axis has been going on since 2014-2015.
In any case, Pepe is been wrong about so much, all of which he always casually passes off as fact. I consider it highly irresponsible and a violation of basic professional norms for someone in his position.
You probably like him, after all, you're making an effort to defend him, but he's an infamous fabulist who only tells people what they want to hear. He used to be a real journalist and analyst but that was long ago.
Agree 100%
That is very courteous of you.
The super-feudalist oligarchic deep state which has come to wield water-tight extraconstitutional suzerainty over the executive and judiciary in much of Euro Merica, after having systematically disenfranchised the sane populace and irrecoverably transmogrified democratic institutions, is now trying to ready the naive common folk of Europe to jump on the bandwagon of holocaustic invasive civilisational assault on Russia under the reassuring illusion that actual victory in a all out nuclear assault on Russia is an achievable with current level of sophistication of European military technology. But as if this absurd illusion is not enough for goading European serfs into willingly become expendable cannon-fodder of war, the deep state is also leaving nothing to chance by jettisoning the civilisational animosity towards India which runs deep in the European Viking subconscious since the days of Neanderthal neolithism, and redirecting it in full frenzied throttle towards Russia by positing that Russia is actually an aberration on the sacred Christian soil of Europe, an outpost implanted by Vedic India in remote antiquity for pillaging and siphoning off the wealth of Europe. A pertinent quote from a modern war manual which form recommended reading for western military strategists, a tome titled " Forgotten Antiquities of the Saffron menace, Vedic India in Europe", reads thus, "Beneath their skin deep Christian disguise, the Russian hordes have always borne the ignominy of barbarous saffron blood coursing in their veins".
It goes without saying that how Europe will deal with its real bete noir, India, after having done with Russia is anybody's guess in light of the foregoing info.
Although the deep state's tall claim of possessing capability to decimate Russia and actually emerge victorious in a concerted nuclear invasion of Russia without having to endure MAD is a plain exaggeration under the current levels of technological prowess and military hardware inventory, it is equally true that EU bigwigs have been making consistent effort to pump all of the wealth, which they are draining with both hands in the deep from actual wealth generating economies in Asia through an ever stifling rapacious regime of resource-pilfering patents and IPRs, into the gargantuan war effort to achieve the ambition of overwhelming technological superiority over Russia. Missile shields such as the American golden dome are also in the offing in Europe. All the same, the superb strategy is to keep target countries such as India dozed in indifferent slumber without the slightest clue of this impending state of affairs, and especially to brow eat India against joining hands with Russia towards joint
economic emancipation, by dangling the threat of sanctions for non-compliance. This strategy is a fig leaf from the strategy employed by Saracens in 600 AD when they suddenly overran the peninsula and realms beyond, by invading the numerous small
neighbouring principalities sequentially one at a time, but making a horrible example of the civilian populace of defeated countries via trademark excruciating torture, so as to serve as an example
to all neighbours, potential targets for annexation, against mustering the daredevilry to even contemplate resisting calls for surrender in the first place. Russia has understood that it must aim for total vertical and horizontal integration of its manufacturing prowess if it is to survive an EU embargo and blockade. Thankfully this is a doable because India and Russia collectively are amply endowed with every known mineral, agricultural and human resource! The overall game plan of European
deep state consists in unleashing its handmaiden the ISIS, controlled via Turkish intermediaries loyal to NATO, on India for mass street slaughter to sanitise Indian defences and maul Indian society as a harbinger of subsequent direct invasion using ICBM's. Europe is trying every trick in its resource book to disincentive India and Russia from organising themselves into an economic coalition for preemption of the fate that would result from the sordid plans Europe has in store for them.
No, I am neither a fan nor a regular reader of this gentleman named Pepe Escobar and am in no position to vouch safe for him because I am not even much familiar with his writings.
But my point is that the audacity of western MSM in peddling the Houthi-Russia nexus has been of a degree which is outright criminal. And this narrative of the MSM provides fodder and butress to Resistance afficionadoes in the Alt Media, in a positive feedback circle. As you have pointed out, MSM has been at this mischief for more than the 2 yrs I just pointed in the aforegoing. Reverse Potem kinism is being practised by some western oligarchist MSM outlets with malice towards Russia, for I flaming public opinion against Russia through blatant lies. The following are some comments from erudite readers which had been shadow banned by Palki on the Firstpost video I mentioned hereafore, but were saved by me before they went offline.
Pulki Sharma Upadhye has joined forces with the EU warmongers by lamenting the unmolested passage of Russian commercial liners plying the Red Sea. It is almost as if Palki is wishing that those Russian ships get bombed, so that Russia might taste vengeance for defying the illicit diktats of the EU which wants to monopolise international shipping by projecting the unconstitutional overreach of European sanctions regime on India and Russia.
(European Union deep state has threatened to punish Indian companies which finance or deal in any way with ships bringing oil from Russia to India.)
Moreover, one is led to suspect that Pulki is conveying a discreet threat to Russia on behalf of her western corpomaniac string-puller paymasters to join the American naval coalition patrols or else face another Bay of Pigs style false flag fire-bombing of Russian ships at the hands of the Pentagon or NATO.
The pervert Pulki or Pickly Shawrma Upadiyee is expressing anguish by innuendo at the fact that Russian ships have remained unscathed from attacks thus far. Her question namely 'whether Russia is immune to Houthi attacks' is in no less bad taste than the hypothetical question of whether Palki is immune to gang rape at the hands of American kids in New York. The same God who has protected Palki from rape, is protecting Russian ships. I believe there is an even more sinister connotation to Palki's uncharitable observation made in a tone of sardonic lament. Could it be that Palki is wishing the terrible to befall Russia, something the priest crafters call by the name "curse", or Alternatively could it be that Pickly is delivering a veiled or discreet warning to Russia on behalf of the deep state of Europe and America, to join the bandwagon of anti-Iranian coalition of Pentagon and NATO navies or else face a Bay of Pigs style false flag bombing of Russian ships by the American side? What a terribly disgusting woman !....If you watch Palki's earlier podcasts, you will notice how she was unhappy about the Northern or Arctic Sea Route lane envisaged by Russia, for which Icebreakers had already been deployed, when Palki tried to portray the whole enterprise as an imperialist or irredentist venture, despite the fact that the trajectory of that route lies wholly within Russian territorial waters and exclusive economic zone. Pulki was lamenting that Russia will "probably" charge fees from ships plying that sea lane, as if this in itself is some sort of extortion. Palki only pretends to speak for India and only feigns or fakes nationalist pretentions while astutely undermining Indian strategic national interests with the subtle propaganda style of The BBC. Her position on varied subjects is diametrically opposite the official stance of the Indian government, yet Pulki pretends to be privy to insider access to policy making circles in Delhi. An imposter who impersonates India with the motive of bringing India a bad name and destroying its credibility and hard earned reputation in the Global South."
It is not unusual for Palki to air vicious opinions in many other of podcasts, which are soul- revolting and outrage the sensibilities of many a sensible and virtuous person. For instance, she has bemoaned that Russian ships have been plying the seas unmolested while some other countries have not managed to remain unscathed from pirate attacks; and then she poses the vicious question as to whether Russia is selectively immune to attacks from Houthis. Palki is discreetly suggesting a nexus or collusion between Russia and Houthis in matters of alleged high-sea piracy. Not having been a victim is no ground for holding a person culpable for complicity in a putative crime. The malicious question posed by Palki is no less deprecable than the hypothetical question of whether Palki herself is immune to rape at the hands of male kids in New York. The mindset behind Palki's outbursts is disgusting, to say the least."
The aforegoing paragraphs relate just some of the salient ones of many erudite comments shadow-banned by PulkEye with the motive of foisting a one-sided perspective on public discourse.
The problem is that the likes of Palki are often made star anchors at international outreach symposia sponsored by
Indian government such as Raisinia Dialogue, and no attempt is made to ever nudge them towards reality. Pulki has been "close" to the likes of Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar and other policy hunchos in the sense of having assumed role of star convener at platforms nurtured by them for interface with global corporatedom and civil society. Palki postures herself by innuendo as voice of official Indian policy and as someone privy to previlged insider access to Indian policy-making circles.
My point about rampant and dishonest anti-Russianism in Western MSM and its regional surrogates masquerading under local identities in South Asia, does not in any way detract from the undesirability of Potemkinism as it pertains to abetting misleading narratives espoused by ALT Media.
But the MSM regularly lies about Russian policy and maliciously twists it, so what's it say when their narrative aligns with top AMC influencers'?
The person who you're mentioning might be influential in India but I'm pretty sure that almost outside of India never heard of them.
By contrast, Pepe is globally known among ideological friends and foes alike, and has much more influence over the general discourse.
Problem is that the likes of Firstpost (owned partly by Ambani tycoon group) and Wion(of Zee group) which are hedge fronts for mouth piecing Western media narratives, (complex chain of ownership traces to Euro American corporate strings of WLmbt kind) used to have substantial viewership in Asia and Africa. Firstpost publishes from the US, South Africa and India. Lately it seems to have lost much of its following because people are increasingly being able to see through the tireless though subtle anti-Russia slant.
https://youtu.be/ZsoiDLFuSw4?si=p9EX-2SRHLF_QdD8
https://youtu.be/hN_I84jxSdA?si=EJ6tXvPoODIshI6N
https://youtu.be/d0eqajVIUlE?si=EEqe7g0KvNx5QXu
https://youtu.be/AaTQiFDKb-M?si=IQyRt_QbYsUvEgi9
https://youtu.be/Z37HAQTdolo?si=6pk0NGFjBDx4SJL6
https://youtu.be/WFwjgzTBQKE?si=mp7r7Okn6VcfhxcK
Palki in her stints as the Face of Wion and Firstpost, had cheerled and applauded the Mafiosi attempts by Zelensky to recruit Indians through blackmail into the Azov militia vide the Georgia training camp; she had spewn fictitious, libelous and scandalous allegations about private life of Mr Putin which were separately aired by Firstpost America's Black anchor as well ; Palki had mouthed racist lies about North Korean soldiers splurging on porn in Russia.
Palki is simply the FRONT END face of these corpomaniac entities like Firstpost which have consistently featured an irrationally staunch anti-Russian bias based on lies and confabulations. It is ironic that many in the Global South had mistaken these hedge-fronts of western corporate giants belonging to the deep state genre, to be authentic voices of Indian public opinion, but reality has lately been dawning upon thinking disillusioned readers by the passing day.
Listening to Alexander Mckay talking about the Russian comprador class and the pressure which they are placing on Putin. Putin is first and foremost a pragmatist. I think many alt media folks forget that.
Agreed with your statements.
Maybe it’s Putin also signaling he might help Trump on Iran…
'tis the season of discrediting Alt-media political commentary!
Like Nasrallah said, Russia is not part of the Axis of Resistance.
The current leadership grew up in a USSR where there was tolerance oppressive relations, and relations between states are tough. That is why both China and Russia voted for economic war against DPRK and Iran at the UNSC. Even Rohani's Iran left Damascus without an embassador for two years. It's tough.
tolerance for oppressive international relations*
The reality is that Yemen is divided. The interests of Aden and those of Sanaa are different.
Russia, like the USA, has a powerful Zionist lobby. Not as strong as that of the USA but it is nevertheless largely in control of the media. Just look at how many Jews have programs on Russia's main TV channels. Look at how many Israelis are Russian-speakers. Putin cannot afford to ignore them.
ALL Dnjepar bridges should be destroyed