The lack of any meaningful economic relationship with Iran predetermined that most countries would support any resolution against it if unofficially forced to choose between the Islamic Republic and the Gulf Kingdoms to whom they’re dependent to some degree on energy imports.
I agree with your assessment but want to add some context.
The meaning of the UNSC and the UN in general has been hollowed out by the US empire. Of course the New York seat is geographically located in the heart of the US empire and the latter uses that as an advantage to limit the activity of its adversaries by blocking the presence of Russian diplomats' supporting staff of amongst others. The most determined foes of the US can't even go there. The US will consistently use its veto, not based on the committed "crime" but based on the party it addresses. Therefore, the UN much like the League of Nations prior to WWII has lost much of its meaning. The Gaza Holocaust, Maduro's abduction as head of state, ... are testament to this.
If there were to be a resolution that would actually have had adverse effects, like the Libya resolution giving the West a moral cover to destroy it and where Russia under Medvedev abstained from, Russia would have vetoed the Iran one.
Yeah, the »fans«, those who postulate things without showing evidence, will not discuss it. Same with the Chinese and Russian attitude towards the Zionists‘ genocide in Palestine. Both of them maintain substantial trade relations with that gangster state. The only one who makes this a topic is John Helmer who, a couple of days ago, raised direct opposition by one Nima (who normally does not express any opinion)—worth watching. May be one Dr. Brovkin might be named along with Helmer. The worst, however, is that this topic is not even discussed, nor mentioned by the »fans« phalanx. Andrew, here, touches on it from time to time. But he, too, does not mention names nor quotes them when going against them . Why is that?
I've actually written extensively about Russian-Israeli relations from 2017 onwards. A lot of my work was lost when former partner sites shut down but much of it was thankfully archived at Global Research. Just skim through my archives and you'll find plenty of materials like this one:
* Russia’s Middle East Strategy: “Balance” vs. “Betrayal”?
You're therefore totally mistaken in claiming that I rarely write about this since it's not an uncommon topic for me. As for the people who you mentioned, I don't see anything special in Nima, he's just a standard podcast host, actually kind of boring in my opinion just like Lex Fridman.
I have no idea who Dr. Brovkin is, while Helmer is someone who's personally insulted me before in writing without provocation by demeaning me as some "toadie" of the Russian establishment, I think that's how he phrased it. He couldn't be more wrong but he seems to be a very sad, lonely, and angry person, which I only just realized.
He's known for being "the longest continuously serving foreign correspondent in Russia...(thus) making him today the doyen of the foreign press corps in Russia" according to his bio, which folks who've referenced his work to me in private messages always without exception mention to make him seem important:
Well it turns out that he doesn't even live in Russia by his own recent admission; in fact, he hasn't lived here since 2010 when he was EXPELLED FROM RUSSIA! I'm shocked that he let slip that he's been lying about where he lives for 16 YEARS (!!!) but I think something triggered him, he crashed out, wrote that, and now regrets it:
"When the KGB allegedly gave me the codename Socrates forty years ago, they may have been condemning me for asking questions, or convicting me. When the FBI investigated, they acquitted me. When Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov expelled me from Moscow in September 2010 and recently extended the ban without end, he convicted me of what one of his officials said was 'writing bad things about our country'."
Having discovered this, I now consider him to be an extremely untrustworthy, agenda-driven (specifically vengeful) individual and a total fraud (as is typical for many Alt-Media influencers, including niche ones like him). Anyone can rely on whoever they want for analytical guidance, but I personally wouldn't rely on him.
Pro-Russian and -Resistance trolls, which some (including myself) now respectively refer to as ZAnon and RAnon in mockery of their QAnon-like disposition for believing the kookiest "5D chess master plan" conspiracy theories, then mass reported my account as fake on Facebook, got me suspended, and I couldn't reactivate my account till I shared my passport.
It was at that moment that I realized how over the target I truly was that two of the main groups that constitute the Alt-Media Community teamed up to take me down. As they say, you'd better not miss when you aim at the king, and since then, I dedicated myself to raising maximum awareness of this issue and systematically exposing how cultist and manipulative ZAnon and RAnon are:
That's my Facebook post at the time after I got my account back where I declared war on them and never relented since. Nowadays some Alt-Media influencers have built upon my work, all without crediting me since my name is practically a cussword in the community (most of the big names despise me for exposing their grift), so I'm glad to have made a difference in the discourse.
G'day Andrew, I saw your quoted piece from Helmer but it references Moscow not Russia, can one be expelled from Moscow or is that just a ploy I wonder?
Hey Rakyat, no, you can't be expelled from just one region of Russia; expulsion are for the entire territory of Russia. I don't believe that it's a ploy either.
I'm convinced that he gave up the lie that he's been living for the past 16 years (!!!) and let slip the truth because he got triggered by something or another.
Was der auf Substack liefert, ist nicht mehr als eine Wiederkäuer-Kollektion der grünen Neocons im "Daily Mainstream-TV-Mix". Richtig frech.
Ich habe heute fast einen Lachkoller bekommen, als er mir auf Nachfrage seine "Seriösen US-Quellen" genannt hat. Möchtegern-Typen als Aktivisten, über die ich gar nicht mehr Worte verlieren möchte. Schon gar nicht darüber, wer ihn finanziert. (Ok. in dem seinem Fall ist es mir klar, da sehr naheliegend.)
I fully appreciate the honest assessments of Russia-Israel relations based on actual facts, however uncomfortable, and not on wishful thinking.
And yet, all this work leaves the final question unanswered. Why?
"Russian foreign policy isn’t formulated based on morals, ethics, or principles, but on cold, hard interests".
So, what is the advantage to Russia in supporting Israel, a close ally of its arch-enemy USA bent on the destruction of Russia itself?
Should we buy that it's just based on the personal preferences of Putin himself, and not on positions within the Russian deep state, economic powers/oligarcs, etc? But why would they support such policies?
Are Russian jews so powerful, like in the USA? Is it a reaction to the islamic terrorist attacks against Russia? Is it fear of the Israel nukes? Or what else?
And, what the average Russian in the street thinks about it?
Thanks, but I explained the reason why in my analysis about "balance vs. betrayal"; Putin believes, whether rightly or wrongly, that it's better for Russia's overall interests to maintain a balance of power between Israel-GCC and Iran-"Resistance Axis" instead of decisively try to help one or the other.
The perceived advantages are retaining close ties with a Russian-speaking country (due to the diaspora) that's a tech power with a strong economy and powerful military influence, possibly leveraging some of these ties in the hopes that its influence network in the US helps Russia somehow (and Chabad is the bridge between Putin and Trump).
Russian Jews actually don't seem to be all that powerful here in Russia, in fact, they're not the ones formulating this policy, it's entirely Putin's brainchild. He was practically raised by his Orthodox Jewish neighbors who watched him after school while his parents worked. His martial arts trainer was also Jewish as were almost all of his friends growing up and to this day.
Average Russians in my experience don't mind, in fact, they generally sympathize with Israel because they perceive it as going through what Russia experienced in the 1990s with Chechen terrorism. Pundits are a different story, especially those that target Western audiences, but average Russians have no real problem with Israel and some vacationed there before.
As I wrote in my analysis about why false perceptions continue to proliferate about Russian-Israeli relations, it's entirely due to "Potemkinsim", which can be simplified as a psy-op.
It's been in practice since at least late 2015 when Russia formally intervened in Syria and has since taken on a life of its own, in fact, I believe that it's out of control and has hijacked the community:
I foresaw this in early 2017 after I was first "canceled" like I explained above and have since dedicated myself to fighting against Potemkinism in order to save Russian soft power from this.
I'm just one person, and practically all top "Non-Russian Pro-Russian" influencers are "Potemkinists" -- many aren't even genuinely "pro-Russian" but Leftists, Islamists, and/or "Third Worldists" -- so I couldn't succeed.
I'd like to add that it's easier to fool people than to convince them that they've been fooled, as they say, and this perfectly applies for "Potemkinism" as regards Russian-Israeli relations.
People have been so programmed by incessant propaganda over the past 10.5 years to casually dismiss all facts of their close ties as "Putin psyching out the Zionists with 5D chess".
I'll never give up, nor will I ever lie about their ties (let alone anything in my work), but I'm not optimistic that the community at large can be convinced that they've been lied to.
The faux "Non-Russian Pro-Russian" (NRPR) influencers who are actually Leftists, Islamists, and/or "Third Worldists" (not judging them at all, just pointing this out) would never allow it.
Just about every "big name" is one of those three and each ideology has a stake in upholding the lie that Putin is an anti-Zionist secretly allied with Iran against Israel to free Palestine.
They'll stick to the script till the very end because it's too late to pretend that they innocently got it wrong even if they sincerely had a change of heart. These are very dishonest people.
Even if one "defected" from what's now the de facto NRPR cult, they'd be viciously canceled by their peers and their entire reputation would be ruined with no benefit for themselves.
Perhaps I should lrt Andrew speak for himself, but probably because Andrew seeks to discuss current events, not get into bitch fights with fringe figures.
Good points, but it is worth mentioning that the opposite is true. Since Iran has no commercial ties with most of the world, can very easily ignore the resolution. What are these 135 countries gonna do? They cant stop importing Iran oil as they don't already, they are not going to send troops as they are local powers, and i use the term power loosely. So.... who cares? Russia and China still disagree that the fault was Iran and, so long as it is compatible with their interests, will continue trading with it. Iran can easily ignore everything else, and focus on raising the pain for the US.
Excellent point, Iran can afford to let those countries place themselves in splendid isolation from it, because it doesn't need them anyways; and Russia and China needn't care less about the caophony of a farcical entity that pretends to be the new league of nations, or the noise of dogs which bark at the advancing caravan. Just as the USA does not care two hoots about the UN anyways.
Doesn't it just proves that: 1) realpolitik trumps morality in IR as Mearsheimer e.g. long opined, 2) most including China are reliant on gulf hydrocarbon supplies and are willing to humour them sheikhs in the interest of their own citizens, but 3) the real crux being that the UN is toothless compared to the 3 great powers?
Since Iran is fighting one of the 3 just fine all by itself (with the quiet approval of the other 2, as them 2 amply demonstrated by the vetoed Russian draft), this resolution is and will always be a nothingburger.
Why don't we think through what might a country be like if it believes morality trumps their own interests? Wouldn't it be starting colour revolutions all over the planet? Wait...
I can understand the reluctance of China and Russia to take an aggressive stance against America. We have enough lunatics who would love nothing more than to bring Armageddon on the world. It's not just about profit for them.
I often hear this conspiracy theory about Muslims plotting to bring Armageddon upon the world by manipulating "infidel" nuclear powers America, Russia and China into turning on one another. So much so that allegedly, anti-Zionists in the American deep state have manipulated Trump into decimating Iran so that Islam might triumph over Christians who would fight off one another to death in an ensuing world war? an what not. But if there is any element of truth to it, I am certain you are not the only person privy to such "valuable" information, and those who formulate American, Russian and Chinese policy would not have lost sight of it. With 9000 plus nuclear warheads in the arsenal of the USA and Russia each, and several hundred in China's, they sure possess enough newcakes and pastries to spare some for obliging the Muslim world with endowment apart from the requirements of facing their main adversaries. In that case, commonsense dictates that the first thought that would have occurred to them all would have been to cut their losses by first finishing the unfinished business with the Islamic world, but till date there is no sign of that having happened thus far or happening anytime soon. So I figure that the fears you are expressing are a conspiracy theory at best. If you still know better, why not take initiative in correcting what might in your opinion be the pansignificant oversight of current nuclear powers?
So play nice to these lunatics or suggest individuals sign up to the military to fight but definitely don't use decisive actions to create a peaceful result just let them march on with their plan of dominance and destruction as in Syria, Iraq, Libya, Somalia and now Iran followed by Russia unless they use nukes.
The UAE has arrested 40 persons of various nationalities, and Bahrain 5, under draconian laws which prescribe penalties upto death for having photographed evidence in the ongoing war with Iran, such as footage of missiles flying in the sky. By suppressing the flow of information out of the Emirates, Gulf Sheikhs are in effect misinforming Asian governments on the latest developments in the war, thus dishonestly undeeplaying the gravity of peril faced by expatriate workers held in defacto bondage and in turn hampering the capability of Asian governments to make informed decisions concerning need for evacuation of their citizens from the war zone. Arab Gulf kings are engendering a spurious ebullience by sponsoring influencer videos for creating such impressions.
Lana Nusseibeh, minister of state in the UAE government, has expressed intolerance for Iran's missile program by branding it incompatible with regional peace.
Could not Russia have vetoed the SC motion if it truly supported Iran which they obviously don't (very much) if at all maybe secretly and it will never be revealed either way which is the way VVP likes it.
Copying Erdogans playbook of trying to play both sides for individual benefit it seems.
An irreconcilable paradox is immanent in the votes cast by UN representatives of so many countries in respect of the resolution discussed here. The offcialdom in the Bedouin Arab Gulf Sheikhdoms has been screaming at the top of its voice, vouchsafing that life is completely normal in these countries except for some stray incidents of freak accidents involving debris falling from projectiles intercepted in the air. Some of these Sheikhdoms have gone to the extreme lengths of invoking death penalty statutes for terrorising both expatriates and local Arabs into silence about what may sceptics alleged to be the true underrated scale of damage to life, property and commerce sustained as a result of Iranian strikes. If the feel-good, la la land propaganda conducted by the Bedouin Oil Sheikhs is a true depiction of the state of affairs, then the so called delegates at the aforesaid UN summit are guilty of malafide lies, by way of underplaying the phenomenal loss of lives and property to the extent of an environmental catastrophe that have been wrought by aggression in the form of bombings conducting on the Iranian mainland by Gulf Arab countries, while dishonesty making a mountain out of a molehill by taking Iran to task for having wreaked "unacceptable" damage in retribution in those Arab Gulf countries whereas in actuality there has been none such if one were to go by the official stance espoused by governments of those Gulf countries and supported by the only public narrative the latter are permitting local residents to subscribe to. In that case, Russia, China or anyone else including Iran, Yemen, Cuba, anyone will technically be at liberty to impose sanctions on those individual delegates, as well as to institute criminal proceedings against them for perjury and breach of trust, to be followed by surprise arrests from the high seas or airspace, in line with the precedents for armtwisting of UN officials via kangaroo trials which have long been established by the US itself.
And, if the delegates of those 10 plus countries at the aforesaid UN summit spoke the truth, then as a corollary it becomes undeniable that by concealing the true scale of peril from the vagaries of war faced by Asiatic expatriates who are being held as defacto bonded or indentured labourers in Gulf Arab countries, under pain of death for disclosure, the Gulf Arab governments and their diplomats worldwide are forcibly preventing Asiatic governments from making informed decisions about the need to evacuate the latters' nationals from their bonded labour prisons inside the Gulf countries. In that event, the delegates from the so called global South ought to have spat in the face of Gulf Arab diplomats and Asiatic governments ought to have stripped Arab diplomats residing in Asia of all diplomatic immunity and instituted criminal trial against them for enabling genocide of Asiatic labourers instead of shamefully pandering to the Oil Sheikhs. If those Asiatic countries are too shy to offend Oil Sheikhs for reasons of economic dependence, they can delegate that job to a third country by conferring power of attorney in secret.
In any event, this summit was a stage managed kangaroo show, because the United States weaponises its illegal power of veto over issuance of visas to prevent those of diplomatic support staff who have been arbitrarily marked as ideological adversaries from showing up at such summits, and in the absence of their attendance, the composition of the delegation cannot be deemed as representative at all. It is a kangaroo show, like the bogus trial at the International Court which incriminated Russia over alleged atrocities years in Ukraine, because under the EU bans currently in force across Europe vide sanctions regime, no piece of newsclips aired or articulated by Russian correspondents or media outlets can be circulated on the territory of EU, let alone being admisible as direct or circumstantial evidence. In the event, corpimperialist outfits masquerading as news channels such as the Bee bee sea and Sea en N, have the field entirely to themselves for conducting a farcical media trial masquerading as criminal court proceeding, like the one which brought Saddam Hussein to the gallows based on false allegations made by bee bee sea which had shifted culpability for mass deaths in Iraq engendered by terminal starvation consequent upon air sea blockade imposed by British, French and US navies and airforce, upon Saddam Hussein.
If anything, the shameful fiasco at the aforesaid UN summit has blown the lid over the nonsensical notion propagated by some "Third Worldist" chauvinists, who ape the American inspired lie that Russia is simply a second pole of imperialism like the United States and therefore in the interest of parity the UN security council ought to undergo radical reforms by stripping permanent members of veto power and adding up a score of new third world members into UNSC ranks. The shameful outcome at the summit discussed here has proven once again that so called third Worldist nations if ever they get incorporated into a "reformed" UNSC by any chance, whether under patronage of the self styled megalomaniac Captain of the Global South or otherwise, are incapable of faring any better than cheapskate lapdogs of American imperialism.
Given the gravity of American and Arab Gulf strikes on Iranian civilian populace and infrastructure which satisfies the the cannon for killing a fly paradigm, and the amply evident fact that this war is not about effecting a regime change or emancipation of a populace "repressed" under the weight of under the supposed tyrrany of fundamentalist puritanical Islam, but an overwhelmingly disproportionate assault for devastating Iran's technological infrastructure and manpowerin order to incapacitate it for ages to come; it becomes compelling to question the integrity f an Iranian who might be still supportive of the current American led aggression against Iran for whatever reason. Had the goal of the Pentagon been religious liberation, Saudi Arabia would have been the best starting point. On the other hand, in at least 10 very high level meetings with King Abdullah and the Regent Prince Mohammed Bin Salman, the CIA has impressed upon the latter in very threatening tone to desist from and roll back even the sham secularisation and liberalisation being pursued by Salman with modernist motives, let this exercise should inadvertently spark a schism in the larger Ummah in Asia that could wean away substantial sections of Asiatic and African populace away from Saudi influence. The US weaponises the unholy influence wielded by its Saudi lackey over the mass of Muslims worldwide for furtherence of American geostrategic ambitions. With the conquest of Iran, the Pentagon aspires to complete the triad of Riyadh, Ankara and Tehran for controlling the mood of entire Central Asia from Port Shevchenko to Akmolinsk and Arkalik and completion of the military Schengen from the Bay of Biscay to the Altai for whatever it entails for security of nations in Asia and beyond.
I agree with your assessment but want to add some context.
The meaning of the UNSC and the UN in general has been hollowed out by the US empire. Of course the New York seat is geographically located in the heart of the US empire and the latter uses that as an advantage to limit the activity of its adversaries by blocking the presence of Russian diplomats' supporting staff of amongst others. The most determined foes of the US can't even go there. The US will consistently use its veto, not based on the committed "crime" but based on the party it addresses. Therefore, the UN much like the League of Nations prior to WWII has lost much of its meaning. The Gaza Holocaust, Maduro's abduction as head of state, ... are testament to this.
If there were to be a resolution that would actually have had adverse effects, like the Libya resolution giving the West a moral cover to destroy it and where Russia under Medvedev abstained from, Russia would have vetoed the Iran one.
135 countries mean NOTHING.
A third of them are micro states with less than 1 millions inhabitants, another third less than ten millions.
But more worrying: Russia nor China opposed their veto on such a heinous résolution is a shame and an abject cowardice.
They don't worth better than India or Europe.
This coward and disgusting abstention is the sign of their next surrender and submission.
For remind, in 2003, France opposed its veto alone to resolution against Irak.
It was the last act of honour of our history. Sarkozy buried it definitely and Macron is jumping on the grave for packing the ground.
But it appears that Russia nor China have honour neither. Just interests.
But interests without honour, that's called submission.
The result? Very simple, after Syria, Venezuela and now that, no more country on the world will risk to trust and rely on Russia and China.
BRICS' are definitely dead.
And it's not USA which killed them.
Only their cowardice and selfishness.
I'm really looking forward to read Escobar, Martianov, Johnson and others explain that to their morons, apology, readers.
Yeah, the »fans«, those who postulate things without showing evidence, will not discuss it. Same with the Chinese and Russian attitude towards the Zionists‘ genocide in Palestine. Both of them maintain substantial trade relations with that gangster state. The only one who makes this a topic is John Helmer who, a couple of days ago, raised direct opposition by one Nima (who normally does not express any opinion)—worth watching. May be one Dr. Brovkin might be named along with Helmer. The worst, however, is that this topic is not even discussed, nor mentioned by the »fans« phalanx. Andrew, here, touches on it from time to time. But he, too, does not mention names nor quotes them when going against them . Why is that?
I've actually written extensively about Russian-Israeli relations from 2017 onwards. A lot of my work was lost when former partner sites shut down but much of it was thankfully archived at Global Research. Just skim through my archives and you'll find plenty of materials like this one:
* Russia’s Middle East Strategy: “Balance” vs. “Betrayal”?
https://www.globalresearch.ca/russias-middle-east-strategy-balance-vs-betrayal/5690056
I've also written dozens of analyses about this here at my Substack such as these:
* Clarifying Lavrov’s Comparison Of The Latest Israeli-Hamas War To Russia’s Special Operation
https://korybko.substack.com/p/clarifying-lavrovs-comparison-of
* Lavrov Reminded The World That Russia Is Committed To Ensuring Israel’s Security
https://korybko.substack.com/p/lavrov-reminded-the-world-that-russia
* Russia & The Resistance Axis Will Always Fundamentally Disagree About The Future Of Palestine
https://korybko.substack.com/p/russia-and-the-resistance-axis-will
* Why Do False Perceptions About Russian Policy Towards Israel Continue To Proliferate?
https://korybko.substack.com/p/putin-shared-some-important-insight
My personal favorite article on this subject was this one though:
* President Putin On Israel: Quotes From The Kremlin Website (2000-2018)
https://web.archive.org/web/20231008133800/https://orientalreview.su/2018/05/10/president-putin-on-israel-quotes-from-the-kremlin-website/
You're therefore totally mistaken in claiming that I rarely write about this since it's not an uncommon topic for me. As for the people who you mentioned, I don't see anything special in Nima, he's just a standard podcast host, actually kind of boring in my opinion just like Lex Fridman.
I have no idea who Dr. Brovkin is, while Helmer is someone who's personally insulted me before in writing without provocation by demeaning me as some "toadie" of the Russian establishment, I think that's how he phrased it. He couldn't be more wrong but he seems to be a very sad, lonely, and angry person, which I only just realized.
He's known for being "the longest continuously serving foreign correspondent in Russia...(thus) making him today the doyen of the foreign press corps in Russia" according to his bio, which folks who've referenced his work to me in private messages always without exception mention to make him seem important:
https://johnhelmer.net/about/
Well it turns out that he doesn't even live in Russia by his own recent admission; in fact, he hasn't lived here since 2010 when he was EXPELLED FROM RUSSIA! I'm shocked that he let slip that he's been lying about where he lives for 16 YEARS (!!!) but I think something triggered him, he crashed out, wrote that, and now regrets it:
"When the KGB allegedly gave me the codename Socrates forty years ago, they may have been condemning me for asking questions, or convicting me. When the FBI investigated, they acquitted me. When Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov expelled me from Moscow in September 2010 and recently extended the ban without end, he convicted me of what one of his officials said was 'writing bad things about our country'."
https://johnhelmer.net/bonfire-of-the-grand-strategies-so-long-netanyahu-trump-modi-xi-putin/
Having discovered this, I now consider him to be an extremely untrustworthy, agenda-driven (specifically vengeful) individual and a total fraud (as is typical for many Alt-Media influencers, including niche ones like him). Anyone can rely on whoever they want for analytical guidance, but I personally wouldn't rely on him.
I also wrote this in early 2017:
* Israel and Russia are NOT on the verge of war. They are allies!
https://theduran.com/israel-russia-not-verge-war-allies/
Pro-Russian and -Resistance trolls, which some (including myself) now respectively refer to as ZAnon and RAnon in mockery of their QAnon-like disposition for believing the kookiest "5D chess master plan" conspiracy theories, then mass reported my account as fake on Facebook, got me suspended, and I couldn't reactivate my account till I shared my passport.
It was at that moment that I realized how over the target I truly was that two of the main groups that constitute the Alt-Media Community teamed up to take me down. As they say, you'd better not miss when you aim at the king, and since then, I dedicated myself to raising maximum awareness of this issue and systematically exposing how cultist and manipulative ZAnon and RAnon are:
https://www.facebook.com/korybko/posts/pfbid02DbFizpHEKENxADiVBccTWR6hReERQxhcaZ3dht81CUAJoHBBxYT6bi1xudsxnbvUl
That's my Facebook post at the time after I got my account back where I declared war on them and never relented since. Nowadays some Alt-Media influencers have built upon my work, all without crediting me since my name is practically a cussword in the community (most of the big names despise me for exposing their grift), so I'm glad to have made a difference in the discourse.
I also reminded everyone of my crusade against what I now call ZAnon, previously the "Putinists", on New Year's Day in 2019:
* I’m A Pro-Putin Anti-“Putinist” And It’s About Time That Alt-Media Acknowledges That We Exist
https://eurasiafuture.com/2019/01/01/im-a-pro-putin-anti-putinist-and-its-about-time-that-alt-media-acknowledges-that-we-exist/
As anyone who's followed my work could expect, ZAnon really didn't like that one lol
Here's another very relevant piece that I published a year and a half ago in October 2024:
* Russia Sells Processed Oil Products To Israel & Facilitates Kazakhstan’s Oil Exports To It
https://korybko.substack.com/p/russia-sells-processed-oil-products
As usual, I was slurred on X by ZAnon and RAnon as a "Zionist", but I couldn't care less what such scum says about me.
G'day Andrew, I saw your quoted piece from Helmer but it references Moscow not Russia, can one be expelled from Moscow or is that just a ploy I wonder?
Hey Rakyat, no, you can't be expelled from just one region of Russia; expulsion are for the entire territory of Russia. I don't believe that it's a ploy either.
I'm convinced that he gave up the lie that he's been living for the past 16 years (!!!) and let slip the truth because he got triggered by something or another.
He's basically using Moscow as a metonym for Russia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metonymy
Die meisten Influencer stellen sich höher heraus, als sie auch nur im Geringsten sind.
Hier auch so einer: https://bsky.app/profile/ulfbrue.bsky.social "weltberühmter Blog". Man beachte seine Interaktions-Benchmarks. ROFL
Was der auf Substack liefert, ist nicht mehr als eine Wiederkäuer-Kollektion der grünen Neocons im "Daily Mainstream-TV-Mix". Richtig frech.
Ich habe heute fast einen Lachkoller bekommen, als er mir auf Nachfrage seine "Seriösen US-Quellen" genannt hat. Möchtegern-Typen als Aktivisten, über die ich gar nicht mehr Worte verlieren möchte. Schon gar nicht darüber, wer ihn finanziert. (Ok. in dem seinem Fall ist es mir klar, da sehr naheliegend.)
I fully appreciate the honest assessments of Russia-Israel relations based on actual facts, however uncomfortable, and not on wishful thinking.
And yet, all this work leaves the final question unanswered. Why?
"Russian foreign policy isn’t formulated based on morals, ethics, or principles, but on cold, hard interests".
So, what is the advantage to Russia in supporting Israel, a close ally of its arch-enemy USA bent on the destruction of Russia itself?
Should we buy that it's just based on the personal preferences of Putin himself, and not on positions within the Russian deep state, economic powers/oligarcs, etc? But why would they support such policies?
Are Russian jews so powerful, like in the USA? Is it a reaction to the islamic terrorist attacks against Russia? Is it fear of the Israel nukes? Or what else?
And, what the average Russian in the street thinks about it?
Thanks, but I explained the reason why in my analysis about "balance vs. betrayal"; Putin believes, whether rightly or wrongly, that it's better for Russia's overall interests to maintain a balance of power between Israel-GCC and Iran-"Resistance Axis" instead of decisively try to help one or the other.
The perceived advantages are retaining close ties with a Russian-speaking country (due to the diaspora) that's a tech power with a strong economy and powerful military influence, possibly leveraging some of these ties in the hopes that its influence network in the US helps Russia somehow (and Chabad is the bridge between Putin and Trump).
Russian Jews actually don't seem to be all that powerful here in Russia, in fact, they're not the ones formulating this policy, it's entirely Putin's brainchild. He was practically raised by his Orthodox Jewish neighbors who watched him after school while his parents worked. His martial arts trainer was also Jewish as were almost all of his friends growing up and to this day.
Average Russians in my experience don't mind, in fact, they generally sympathize with Israel because they perceive it as going through what Russia experienced in the 1990s with Chechen terrorism. Pundits are a different story, especially those that target Western audiences, but average Russians have no real problem with Israel and some vacationed there before.
As I wrote in my analysis about why false perceptions continue to proliferate about Russian-Israeli relations, it's entirely due to "Potemkinsim", which can be simplified as a psy-op.
It's been in practice since at least late 2015 when Russia formally intervened in Syria and has since taken on a life of its own, in fact, I believe that it's out of control and has hijacked the community:
https://x.com/AKorybko/status/1974056299747836171
I foresaw this in early 2017 after I was first "canceled" like I explained above and have since dedicated myself to fighting against Potemkinism in order to save Russian soft power from this.
I'm just one person, and practically all top "Non-Russian Pro-Russian" influencers are "Potemkinists" -- many aren't even genuinely "pro-Russian" but Leftists, Islamists, and/or "Third Worldists" -- so I couldn't succeed.
I'd like to add that it's easier to fool people than to convince them that they've been fooled, as they say, and this perfectly applies for "Potemkinism" as regards Russian-Israeli relations.
People have been so programmed by incessant propaganda over the past 10.5 years to casually dismiss all facts of their close ties as "Putin psyching out the Zionists with 5D chess".
I'll never give up, nor will I ever lie about their ties (let alone anything in my work), but I'm not optimistic that the community at large can be convinced that they've been lied to.
The faux "Non-Russian Pro-Russian" (NRPR) influencers who are actually Leftists, Islamists, and/or "Third Worldists" (not judging them at all, just pointing this out) would never allow it.
Just about every "big name" is one of those three and each ideology has a stake in upholding the lie that Putin is an anti-Zionist secretly allied with Iran against Israel to free Palestine.
They'll stick to the script till the very end because it's too late to pretend that they innocently got it wrong even if they sincerely had a change of heart. These are very dishonest people.
Even if one "defected" from what's now the de facto NRPR cult, they'd be viciously canceled by their peers and their entire reputation would be ruined with no benefit for themselves.
Perhaps I should lrt Andrew speak for himself, but probably because Andrew seeks to discuss current events, not get into bitch fights with fringe figures.
You perhaps notice that if Andrew like discussions, he hates polemics. Polemics are always sterile.
Good points, but it is worth mentioning that the opposite is true. Since Iran has no commercial ties with most of the world, can very easily ignore the resolution. What are these 135 countries gonna do? They cant stop importing Iran oil as they don't already, they are not going to send troops as they are local powers, and i use the term power loosely. So.... who cares? Russia and China still disagree that the fault was Iran and, so long as it is compatible with their interests, will continue trading with it. Iran can easily ignore everything else, and focus on raising the pain for the US.
Excellent point, Iran can afford to let those countries place themselves in splendid isolation from it, because it doesn't need them anyways; and Russia and China needn't care less about the caophony of a farcical entity that pretends to be the new league of nations, or the noise of dogs which bark at the advancing caravan. Just as the USA does not care two hoots about the UN anyways.
Doesn't it just proves that: 1) realpolitik trumps morality in IR as Mearsheimer e.g. long opined, 2) most including China are reliant on gulf hydrocarbon supplies and are willing to humour them sheikhs in the interest of their own citizens, but 3) the real crux being that the UN is toothless compared to the 3 great powers?
Since Iran is fighting one of the 3 just fine all by itself (with the quiet approval of the other 2, as them 2 amply demonstrated by the vetoed Russian draft), this resolution is and will always be a nothingburger.
Why don't we think through what might a country be like if it believes morality trumps their own interests? Wouldn't it be starting colour revolutions all over the planet? Wait...
The consequences could be serious for Iran. Making its eventual demise much more likely.
China continues to buy oil yet still fears western media.
I can understand the reluctance of China and Russia to take an aggressive stance against America. We have enough lunatics who would love nothing more than to bring Armageddon on the world. It's not just about profit for them.
I often hear this conspiracy theory about Muslims plotting to bring Armageddon upon the world by manipulating "infidel" nuclear powers America, Russia and China into turning on one another. So much so that allegedly, anti-Zionists in the American deep state have manipulated Trump into decimating Iran so that Islam might triumph over Christians who would fight off one another to death in an ensuing world war? an what not. But if there is any element of truth to it, I am certain you are not the only person privy to such "valuable" information, and those who formulate American, Russian and Chinese policy would not have lost sight of it. With 9000 plus nuclear warheads in the arsenal of the USA and Russia each, and several hundred in China's, they sure possess enough newcakes and pastries to spare some for obliging the Muslim world with endowment apart from the requirements of facing their main adversaries. In that case, commonsense dictates that the first thought that would have occurred to them all would have been to cut their losses by first finishing the unfinished business with the Islamic world, but till date there is no sign of that having happened thus far or happening anytime soon. So I figure that the fears you are expressing are a conspiracy theory at best. If you still know better, why not take initiative in correcting what might in your opinion be the pansignificant oversight of current nuclear powers?
Dude, the lunatics I was talking about are in Washington, DC. So, your Wall of Text was a wasted effort.
So play nice to these lunatics or suggest individuals sign up to the military to fight but definitely don't use decisive actions to create a peaceful result just let them march on with their plan of dominance and destruction as in Syria, Iraq, Libya, Somalia and now Iran followed by Russia unless they use nukes.
If you want to fight, don't forget to enlist in the military. Good luck 👍
Because they crave American carrot and fear American stick.
Yes, you're right. For China and Russia, this abstention is a terrible proof of weakness.
The UAE has arrested 40 persons of various nationalities, and Bahrain 5, under draconian laws which prescribe penalties upto death for having photographed evidence in the ongoing war with Iran, such as footage of missiles flying in the sky. By suppressing the flow of information out of the Emirates, Gulf Sheikhs are in effect misinforming Asian governments on the latest developments in the war, thus dishonestly undeeplaying the gravity of peril faced by expatriate workers held in defacto bondage and in turn hampering the capability of Asian governments to make informed decisions concerning need for evacuation of their citizens from the war zone. Arab Gulf kings are engendering a spurious ebullience by sponsoring influencer videos for creating such impressions.
Lana Nusseibeh, minister of state in the UAE government, has expressed intolerance for Iran's missile program by branding it incompatible with regional peace.
Jede Stimme ist käuflich.
Sarcasm does not suit you and I am not a nazbol either, wars are for the banks et al.
Could not Russia have vetoed the SC motion if it truly supported Iran which they obviously don't (very much) if at all maybe secretly and it will never be revealed either way which is the way VVP likes it.
Copying Erdogans playbook of trying to play both sides for individual benefit it seems.
Craven. Spineless. Crippled and dependent.
Astonishing.
Today, absolutely NOT a word on AMC about this vote. Surprising, no? 😂😂
An irreconcilable paradox is immanent in the votes cast by UN representatives of so many countries in respect of the resolution discussed here. The offcialdom in the Bedouin Arab Gulf Sheikhdoms has been screaming at the top of its voice, vouchsafing that life is completely normal in these countries except for some stray incidents of freak accidents involving debris falling from projectiles intercepted in the air. Some of these Sheikhdoms have gone to the extreme lengths of invoking death penalty statutes for terrorising both expatriates and local Arabs into silence about what may sceptics alleged to be the true underrated scale of damage to life, property and commerce sustained as a result of Iranian strikes. If the feel-good, la la land propaganda conducted by the Bedouin Oil Sheikhs is a true depiction of the state of affairs, then the so called delegates at the aforesaid UN summit are guilty of malafide lies, by way of underplaying the phenomenal loss of lives and property to the extent of an environmental catastrophe that have been wrought by aggression in the form of bombings conducting on the Iranian mainland by Gulf Arab countries, while dishonesty making a mountain out of a molehill by taking Iran to task for having wreaked "unacceptable" damage in retribution in those Arab Gulf countries whereas in actuality there has been none such if one were to go by the official stance espoused by governments of those Gulf countries and supported by the only public narrative the latter are permitting local residents to subscribe to. In that case, Russia, China or anyone else including Iran, Yemen, Cuba, anyone will technically be at liberty to impose sanctions on those individual delegates, as well as to institute criminal proceedings against them for perjury and breach of trust, to be followed by surprise arrests from the high seas or airspace, in line with the precedents for armtwisting of UN officials via kangaroo trials which have long been established by the US itself.
And, if the delegates of those 10 plus countries at the aforesaid UN summit spoke the truth, then as a corollary it becomes undeniable that by concealing the true scale of peril from the vagaries of war faced by Asiatic expatriates who are being held as defacto bonded or indentured labourers in Gulf Arab countries, under pain of death for disclosure, the Gulf Arab governments and their diplomats worldwide are forcibly preventing Asiatic governments from making informed decisions about the need to evacuate the latters' nationals from their bonded labour prisons inside the Gulf countries. In that event, the delegates from the so called global South ought to have spat in the face of Gulf Arab diplomats and Asiatic governments ought to have stripped Arab diplomats residing in Asia of all diplomatic immunity and instituted criminal trial against them for enabling genocide of Asiatic labourers instead of shamefully pandering to the Oil Sheikhs. If those Asiatic countries are too shy to offend Oil Sheikhs for reasons of economic dependence, they can delegate that job to a third country by conferring power of attorney in secret.
In any event, this summit was a stage managed kangaroo show, because the United States weaponises its illegal power of veto over issuance of visas to prevent those of diplomatic support staff who have been arbitrarily marked as ideological adversaries from showing up at such summits, and in the absence of their attendance, the composition of the delegation cannot be deemed as representative at all. It is a kangaroo show, like the bogus trial at the International Court which incriminated Russia over alleged atrocities years in Ukraine, because under the EU bans currently in force across Europe vide sanctions regime, no piece of newsclips aired or articulated by Russian correspondents or media outlets can be circulated on the territory of EU, let alone being admisible as direct or circumstantial evidence. In the event, corpimperialist outfits masquerading as news channels such as the Bee bee sea and Sea en N, have the field entirely to themselves for conducting a farcical media trial masquerading as criminal court proceeding, like the one which brought Saddam Hussein to the gallows based on false allegations made by bee bee sea which had shifted culpability for mass deaths in Iraq engendered by terminal starvation consequent upon air sea blockade imposed by British, French and US navies and airforce, upon Saddam Hussein.
If anything, the shameful fiasco at the aforesaid UN summit has blown the lid over the nonsensical notion propagated by some "Third Worldist" chauvinists, who ape the American inspired lie that Russia is simply a second pole of imperialism like the United States and therefore in the interest of parity the UN security council ought to undergo radical reforms by stripping permanent members of veto power and adding up a score of new third world members into UNSC ranks. The shameful outcome at the summit discussed here has proven once again that so called third Worldist nations if ever they get incorporated into a "reformed" UNSC by any chance, whether under patronage of the self styled megalomaniac Captain of the Global South or otherwise, are incapable of faring any better than cheapskate lapdogs of American imperialism.
Given the gravity of American and Arab Gulf strikes on Iranian civilian populace and infrastructure which satisfies the the cannon for killing a fly paradigm, and the amply evident fact that this war is not about effecting a regime change or emancipation of a populace "repressed" under the weight of under the supposed tyrrany of fundamentalist puritanical Islam, but an overwhelmingly disproportionate assault for devastating Iran's technological infrastructure and manpowerin order to incapacitate it for ages to come; it becomes compelling to question the integrity f an Iranian who might be still supportive of the current American led aggression against Iran for whatever reason. Had the goal of the Pentagon been religious liberation, Saudi Arabia would have been the best starting point. On the other hand, in at least 10 very high level meetings with King Abdullah and the Regent Prince Mohammed Bin Salman, the CIA has impressed upon the latter in very threatening tone to desist from and roll back even the sham secularisation and liberalisation being pursued by Salman with modernist motives, let this exercise should inadvertently spark a schism in the larger Ummah in Asia that could wean away substantial sections of Asiatic and African populace away from Saudi influence. The US weaponises the unholy influence wielded by its Saudi lackey over the mass of Muslims worldwide for furtherence of American geostrategic ambitions. With the conquest of Iran, the Pentagon aspires to complete the triad of Riyadh, Ankara and Tehran for controlling the mood of entire Central Asia from Port Shevchenko to Akmolinsk and Arkalik and completion of the military Schengen from the Bay of Biscay to the Altai for whatever it entails for security of nations in Asia and beyond.