At least we have each other (06/03/22)
Edward Slavsquat's weekly open thread: Not-War Edition
Greetings.
It’s that special time again. Welcome to Edward Slavsquat’s weekly open thread, “At least we have each other.” This is a special Not-War edition. Very possibly the first of many.
As stipulated in the Geneva Conventions, you are allowed to spam the comments section with suspicious URLs and walls of word salad. It’s an open thread.
Below are some Russia-Related News Stories & Analysis from the past week or so.
We are including a Range of Views—because it’s good for you.
Not-War news
Putin: Not-War will continue until “Kiev stops fighting and fulfills Russia’s demands”
Someone foolish gave Poroshenko a machine gun
Russians and Ukrainians are looking at totally different Not-War maps
Kremlin says Zelensky is the legitimate president of Ukraine
Former Ukrainian Prime Minister Nikolai Azarov claims NATO was plotting to nuke Russia
Political scientist tells Tsargrad that Russia will probably gobble up several regions of Ukraine
Russian authorities fine random guy 60,000 rubles for calling for a protest against the Not-War
Iron Curtain 2.0
Russian oligarch says Iron Curtain has returned
Herman Gref’s Sberbank will serve as an intermediary for Russian energy sales to the United States
Internet of Things might stop working in Russia because of sanctions
Sanctions are actually a total fiasco for the West?
Grocery chains have agreed to cap mark-ups on some items at 5%
RT Schizo-in-chief wants to nationalize IKEA
Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan rush to buy up cheap Russian assets
Gold, foreign reserves and Central Bank stuff
The Empire has stolen years’ worth of oil proceeds from Russia to block post-war reconstruction
Central Bank reserves should have been used for industrialization—now it’s too late
How could Russia allow its reserves to be frozen?
Hot takes from around the interwebs
The Not-War in Ukraine has ended the Age of Consumption
RIA Novosti scrubs “victory” op-ed hailing Moscow for uniting the Rus’ (Belarusian outlet laughs)
Putin long-tabled the Russian people and the military
Russia “cannot stop halfway” in Ukraine
UKraine: a parallax view of Zelensky, Biden, NATO, Covid19, graphene debris and the New World Order
Virus Scam news
St. Petersburg still vaxxing the kiddos
Komi agrees to accept Donbass refugees—but they need to be tested first
Gintsburg promises (again) that Sputnik V will shield you from Virus-related hospitalization
Samara peddles clot-shots to East Ukraine evacuees
IT’S A MESS!
Have a relaxing and safe Sunday.
—Riley
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Good old JP Morgan and friends, creating artificially induced scarcity and destabilizing markets and then squeezing people for all their assets while they're desperate. They have been running that same racket for well over a century now.
Can you imagine how different our world would look if it wasn't for professional parasites like that crippling the potential of people like Nikola Tesla?
Though, in all fairness, the parasites are not 100% to blame as they could not keep the game going without our complicity, as we all play into holding up their parasitic empire(s) to some degree (well the vast majority of us, including myself) in some way or another.
First thing I read was Meatshield and I wanted to be the first to comment on it.