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Anonymous ID: 07ad97 March 30, 2022, 7:52 a.m. No.15976360   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>6679

30 Mar, 2022 14:11

Russia accuses West of trying to turn Ukraine into 'second Afghanistan'

Moscow's top diplomat said that the center of world politics is moving place

 

Quote from Eisenhower:

“On Jan. 17, 1961, President Dwight Eisenhower gave the nation a dire warning about what he described as a threat to democratic government. He called it the military-industrial complex, a formidable union of defense contractors and the armed forces”.

 

Here's an excerpt:

"In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex.The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists, and will persist."

 

RT continued

Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergey Lavrov has accused the West of attempting to turn this country into “a second Afghanistan” amid Moscow’s ongoing military offensive in Ukraine.

 

Speaking at the meeting with his Pakistani counterpart, Makhdoom Shah Mahmood Qureshi, in China on Wednesday, Lavrov described the current situation in Ukraine as an attempt by the Western countries to create a new Afghanistan.

 

“Those who tried to make Afghanistan the center of world politics are now trying to replace Afghanistan with Ukraine,” the minister said.

 

His remarks came ahead of the summit on Afghanistan, which will take place on Thursday in Tunxi city, China, and will be attended, by China and Russia, as well as US and Pakistan.

 

Since 1978, Afghanistan has been a scene of multiple wars with numerous international players involved. US and other Western troops left Afghanistan last year after more than 20 years, with the country falling to the Taliban soon after.

 

Speaking ahead of his meeting with the Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, Lavrov said that the world was now going through “a very serious stage in the history of international relations.” According to the Russian official, Moscow, Beijing and their “sympathizers” will move together towards “a multipolar, fair, democratic” new world order.

 

China, meanwhile, has stuck to a ‘neutral’ position on the Ukrainian conflict. Despite voicing support for Ukraine’s sovereignty, Beijing has not flatly condemned Russia’s attack on Ukraine, stating instead that Moscow had legitimate concerns that needed to be addressed. In an interview earlier this week, Wang Yi said that “neither war nor sanctions are good solutions.” Moreover, he made it clear that it was not only China’s position but the stance of other Asian countries too.

 

https://www.rt.com/russia/552990-russia-ukraine-afghanistan-second/

 

https://www.npr.org/2011/01/17/132942244/ikes-warning-of-military-expansion-50-years-later

Anonymous ID: 07ad97 March 30, 2022, 8:04 a.m. No.15976399   🗄️.is 🔗kun

30 Mar, 2022 14:11

Russia accuses West of trying to turn Ukraine into 'second Afghanistan'

Moscow's top diplomat said that the center of world politics is moving place

 

Quote from Eisenhower:

“On Jan. 17, 1961, President Dwight Eisenhower gave the nation a dire warning about what he described as a threat to democratic government. He called it the military-industrial complex, a formidable union of defense contractors and the armed forces”.

 

Here's an excerpt:

"In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex.The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists, and will persist."

 

RT continued

Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergey Lavrov has accused the West of attempting to turn this country into “a second Afghanistan” amid Moscow’s ongoing military offensive in Ukraine.

 

Speaking at the meeting with his Pakistani counterpart, Makhdoom Shah Mahmood Qureshi, in China on Wednesday, Lavrov described the current situation in Ukraine as an attempt by the Western countries to create a new Afghanistan.

 

“Those who tried to make Afghanistan the center of world politics are now trying to replace Afghanistan with Ukraine,” the minister said.

 

His remarks came ahead of the summit on Afghanistan, which will take place on Thursday in Tunxi city, China, and will be attended, by China and Russia, as well as US and Pakistan.

 

Since 1978, Afghanistan has been a scene of multiple wars with numerous international players involved. US and other Western troops left Afghanistan last year after more than 20 years, with the country falling to the Taliban soon after.

 

Speaking ahead of his meeting with the Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, Lavrov said that the world was now going through “a very serious stage in the history of international relations.” According to the Russian official, Moscow, Beijing and their “sympathizers” will move together towards “a multipolar, fair, democratic” new world order.

 

China, meanwhile, has stuck to a ‘neutral’ position on the Ukrainian conflict. Despite voicing support for Ukraine’s sovereignty, Beijing has not flatly condemned Russia’s attack on Ukraine, stating instead that Moscow had legitimate concerns that needed to be addressed. In an interview earlier this week, Wang Yi said that “neither war nor sanctions are good solutions.” Moreover, he made it clear that it was not only China’s position but the stance of other Asian countries too.

 

https://www.rt.com/russia/552990-russia-ukraine-afghanistan-second/

 

https://www.npr.org/2011/01/17/132942244/ikes-warning-of-military-expansion-50-years-later

Anonymous ID: 07ad97 March 30, 2022, 8:13 a.m. No.15976444   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>6879 >>7049

The Attacks On Clarence And Ginni Thomas Are Merely Latest In A Decades-Long Smear Campaign

BY: TRISTAN JUSTICE

MARCH 30, 2022

 

Not only are the attacks on Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and his wife Ginni purely political, they’re deeply hypocritical.

 

While claiming its aggressive collection of confidential information on private citizens is “narrowly tailored” and without a nefarious purpose, Democrats on the Jan. 6 Committee selectively leaked communications of a private citizen to smear political opponents.

 

Last week, CNN and the Washington Post published text messages between Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’s wife, Virginia, who goes by “Ginni,” and former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows exchanged in the days leading up to and on the day of the Capitol riot….

 

Out of the 29 of more than 2,300 text messages released from Meadows’ vast trove of data handed to the Select Committee, not one, the Washington Post conceded, included a direct reference to the sitting justice as the weaponized probe sought to dox a private citizen for petitioning her government.

 

“The messages, which do not directly reference Justice Thomas or the Supreme Court, show for the first time how Ginni Thomas used her access to Trump’s inner circle to promote and seek to guide the president’s strategy to overturn the election results,” the Post reported with the paper adopting Pelosi committee’s framing to indict private political views as a blockbuster scandal.

 

While the committee has made an open point to prosecute those who publicly sought to cast doubt on the fairness of the 2020 election results, the committee’s targeting of Ginni Thomas for privately petitioning government officials on her own marks further escalation of the probe’s assault on civil liberties, and makes Thomas case all the more unique.

 

CNN reported Monday the committee will now seek an interview with Ginni, who has become the latest to be dragged before lawmakers for exercising dissident views, even in private. But the probe’s latest request is just as much targeted at Ginni, a long-time conservative activist who has never concealed her activism, as it is her husband.

 

The left’s racist disdain for Justice Thomas has never been a well-kept secret by a virulent left frustrated by the mere existence of a black conservative, let alone one on the high bench. Attacks on Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s record on lenient sentencing for child sex crimes are cruel and racist. Baseless criticism of Justice Thomas is warranted, however, for his political heresy, starting with his own confirmation process three decades ago.

 

Publication of the text messages provoked immediate calls for Justice Thomas to recuse himself from any cases related to the Jan. 6 investigation for the crime of his wife’s public political views raising concerns over an election with record mail-in voting and last-minute rule changes. New York Democrat Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez even demanded Justice Thomas resign or face impeachment.

 

As outlined Tuesday in The Federalist by former Thomas Law Clerk Wendy Long, however, judges are never asked to recuse themselves over political views, whether their own or their spouse’s.

 

“Leftists in Congress and the media hyperventilate over every tidbit showing that Justice Thomas’s wife, Ginni, is involved in national conservative politics – most recently, that she pushed for integrity in the 2020 election,” Long wrote. “This isn’t news, and it has nothing to do with Justice Thomas’s ability to be a fair and impartial jurist.”

 

Instead, Long explained judicial recusal is about “mainly financial, legal, personal, or professional interests of the Justice or a family member.” Not personal politics. The strategy of the modern left, however, has been to intimidate the courts into submission to extremist and anti-Constitution politics. Consider the last three nomination battles: Justice Brett Kavanaugh was slandered as a serial gang rapist, Amy Coney Barrett was depicted as a character in The Handmaid’s Tale, and Stephen Breyer was pressured to retire while Democrats were in power to replace him.

 

Not only are the attacks on Thomas purely political, they’re hypocritical. Will Democrats calling on Justice Thomas to refrain from his official duties as a jurist similarly demand a probe into House Speaker Nancy Pelosi leveraging her position in Congress to rake in millions? Will journalists married to people in power recuse themselves from coverage on any issues their spouses conduct even minor work on? Probably not. It’s all theater.

 

https://thefederalist.com/2022/03/30/the-attacks-on-clarence-and-ginni-thomas-are-merely-latest-in-a-decades-long-smear-campaign/

 

https://twitter.com/FDRLST/status/1509164793105584130?s=20&t=Wudkok2yQO8G5JNkPT4VoA