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THE MEMOIRS OF

Herbert Hoover

Years of Adventure 1874-1920

Chapter 54

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WHY AMERICA CANNOT MAKE PEACE IN EUROPE

I came out of all these experiences with one absolute conviction, which was: America, with its skill in organization and the valor of its sons, could win great wars. But it could not make lasting peace. I was convincedwe must keep out of Old World wars, lend ourselves to measures preventing war, maintaining peace and healing the wounds of war.

I came to this conclusion because of irreconcilable conflicts in concepts and historic experience between the New World and the Old World. They reached into depths of our international relations, government, social and economic life. They confronted me daily during the war, the Armistice, and in the confusion of making peace. The two worlds were indeed strangers to each other. We had drifted farther and farther apart over 300 years. Indeed, the departure was greater than this number of years, for our ancestors had fled from Europe because they already opposed its ideas on religion and freedom.

During the war and Armistice years I had made many notes on the fundamental separation and its consequences, with a multitude of examples. Again I may repeat, this statement as to events at Versailles and the discussion of our relations to Europe were written in 1922-26. They reflect somewhat the world setting and the climate of American international policies and actions in this period.

IMPERIALISM

Prior to the war, every one of the European states (except Sweden and Switzerland) was an Empire, holding colonies, or to some degree Years of Adventure dominating and exploiting other races and their resources. The standards of living of the people in the "Mother Country" in each Empire had been built up and their economies geared to returns from these possessions. This Imperial concept was also induced, in part, by the pressures on the home population.

European countries had been afflicted for hundreds of years by rivalries and conflicts over their holdings and their expansions. They had relied, and inevitably must continue to rely, upon military strength, military alliances, "balances of power," and power politics for the protection of their possessions.

The World War and the peace stripped the enemy nations—Germany, Austria, Turkey, and Bulgaria—of all their possessions and the victors either liberated or annexed these through "mandates" or otherwise.The peace partly stripped the Russian Empire,liberating some races, and the victors annexed others. The victor states all profited in Empire. Therefore, the theory and practice of Empire was by no means uprooted by the war. It was expanded by the peace.

The New World nations had no Empires or spirit of Empire. With abundant resources, a paucity of population, there was no population pressure or inspiration to Imperialism. Indeed, through the Monroe Doctrine, we had stopped the expansion of European Empires in the Western Hemisphere. By the Spanish- American War, we had freed Cuba and the Philippines from Spain. We had established the independence of Cuba and were in process of doing so for the Philippines. But the conflict of these concepts reached to the very base of our ideas of freedom.

RACIAL INDEPENDENCE

In 160 years of national life, we had learned the values of independence of nations. We were proud of the blessings of freedom which sprang from it. We naturally wished them for all other peoples. We instinctively sympathized with every race struggling for these ideals. Ours was a concept of the "self- determination" and freedom of states built on racial boundaries. All of which was a far departure from Old World ideas in this field and brought constant conflict in approach to its problems of peace.

The borders of mixed populations in Europe—the "irredentas"—have been the scene of constant agitation and conflict for centuries. In every one of them some nationals are separated from their fatherlands. The dominating government unceasingly sought to impose its national language and customs upon these minorities. Their cries to the sympathies of their racial brothers across the borders were an unceasing stimulant to friction. These boundaries shifted with every war and the conflicts flamed up in new areas. The "irredentas" were awarded from expediency or often upon favor to some ally. In many of these assignments our ideas of "self-determination" came into sharp conflict and the American people were constantly stirred by the appeals of these minorities…

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DICTATORS

The continent of Europe has another constant experience strange to the United States. Out of the political pressures, miseries, revolutions and ambitions of men, it has had to bear the periodic rise of militant dictators who at once endanger the peace. Its history, from the foundation of our Republic to 1926, has seen the succession of Napoleon, Kaiser Wilhelm, Lenin and Stalin, and Mussolini. The processes which give rise to these disasters involve forces from which we have departed for centuries.

COMMUNISM, SOCIALISM, FASCISM

With the First World War new explosives were planted in Europe. Communism and Socialism, stimulated by Hegel, Karl Marx, and others, had become a living force.

These infections with their propaganda and actual militant organizations added to the disintegrating forces from the war itself. These European infections, born of miseries, spread into the United States. I published a little book upon our relations with them and tried to express the ideals of our American system in contrast with European social and economic systems generally.1

HATES

We in the New World were strangers to the Old World's inherited hates, its jealousies, and constant fears of military invasion. We had never been subject to the fear of military attack. There had been no continued national wrongs and consequently, no national hates on this side of the ocean. We had a peace-time Army of only police size, and that without conscription. We had a modest Navy mostly to create respect for our citizens engaged in peaceful purposes abroad. Ours had been a security from aggression the nations in Europe had never experienced, and in consequence we had no conception of their needs for military protection.

METHODS OF DIPLOMACY

The practice of Imperialism, its expansion and protection, together with the constantly disquieting "irredentas," fears of aggression, dictators and frictions generally, made "power politics," "balances of power," and military alliances a national necessity to the major nations of Europe.

The duty of European statesmen of good-will is to engage incessantly in adroit power politics, by which aggression is checked and the malign forces allayed, in hopes that a tenuous peace can be extended a little longer. It is a delicate job in which national honor and loyalties to agreement by any of them are continuously sacrificed to expediencies and self-preservation.

We were ill-adapted or prepared to engage successfully in these practices or even to understand them. Our form of representative government gives neither opportunity to learn the skills of power politics and balances of power, nor to practice them if we did. Our government, with its shifting administrations and policies, prevents us from developing the experienced personnel which could know. With our changing elections we can never have the continuity in foreign policies upon which such men could act with assurance in these fields, if they did know.

Moreover, we are made up from these many races of Europe, each retaining a subcurrent of sympathy with its origins which exerts a clouding influence on objective action. To participate successfully in foreign power politics, we must become something other than a free people as we conceive it.

If anyone wants confirmation of all this, he needs only to analyze our group of peacemakers who, with little experience in foreign affairs, worked in a sort of daze over the forces they met in Paris.

REPRESENTATIVE GOVERNMENT

Beyond these immediate currents, our concepts of government were far different from Europe. Our founding fathers perhaps owed more of their initial ideas to Ancient Greece and Rome than to Europe of their time. Few and only minor republics then existed and the Divine Right of Kings was almost universal. In setting the pattern of representative government, the fathers no doubt adopted some ideas from the British but even here we grew up on entirely different lines.

Where representative governments had developed on the Continent, they were widely different from ours. They were all of parliamentary form, where administration was carried on in fact by a committee of the legislative arm reinforced by a long-trained and skilled bureaucracy, as contrasted with our single executive for a fixed term of years with changing public servants. In ours, we rigidly separated the executive, the legislative and the judicial branches. In theirs, there was no separation of executive from the legislature, and less separation of the judiciary. Ours was a Federal government of limited powers, based primarily on local responsibilities; theirs were centralized governments. Their Prime Ministers and Cabinets could speak for the legislative arm. Our President could not. And therefore our government representatives could not speak for, or bind, the nation in complicated peace negotiations.

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SOCIAL STRUCTURE

Our departure from the social concepts of Western Europe spanned the full distance of three hundred years. We separated from them because we did not like them. A separation of thought was inevitable, and the breach constantly widened. Their class stratifications clogged the free rise of particles in the social solution. Opportunity, even in Britain, was mostly confined to a semi-oligarchy of about 20 per cent of the people. France was somewhat better. Broad concepts of individual right and true individual dignity of the American type more nearly existed in some of the small countries. But even there it was fenced in by a mass of aristocratic survivals and barriers. The signs of equal opportunity were rare indeed. In our widespread opportunities, and at least an ideal of equal opportunity, there had developed a genuine fellowship among our people that contributed a deep sense of equality for which there was little European counterpart.

ECONOMIC CONCEPTS

Our departures on the economic side are equally vivid. We have not only been free from need to exploit other nations as a part of economic support to our daily living, but in the eighties we brought about a revolution in our economic system which has been a major departure from the laissez faire economies of Europe. At that time we passed the Interstate Commerce Act establishing the public regulation of natural monopolies. Of much greater importance, we enacted the Anti-Trust laws. Europe never had adopted this Anti-Trust concept. Its economies were honeycombed with cartels, trusts and agreements in restraint of trade, the object of which was to make profits by control of price and distribution. By maintaining competition, we compelled profits to come from improved technology, new inventions, labor-saving devices, and more skilled labor. Thus costs and prices were steadily diminished. With these dynamic forces, we had lifted our standards of living far beyond anything known to European masses. In consequence our economic relations in treaty-making brought sharp conflicts.

CROSS CURRENTS

Too many Americans do not realize to what extent our ideas and our way of life have grown apart from Europe in these three hundred years of separation. American Society with a capital ‘S’, and many of our Intellectuals with a capital ‘I’, have made a sort of fetish of their spiritual home in Europe. They fail to recognize that ours is a setting three centuries distant.

They are much influenced by its magnificent cities, historic cathedrals, art, music, literature, great universities, monuments of human heroism and progress. They meet peoples of fine hospitality, of the widest cultivation and attainments. It is easy to recall that in Europe ever since the Renaissance men have fought and died to build the structure of personal liberty, to lift the dignity of men, to bring security and peace. And that from every country—England, Germany, France, Russia and all the others—we have received magnificent inheritances of human thought.

But these Americans too often see little of the gigantic explosive forces that are constant among these peoples. The reality is that there aretwenty-six races of 400,000,000 people, cheek by jowl in an area two-thirds the size of the United States. Through them surge the deep-seated tribal instincts of nationalism, imperialism, age-old hates, memories of deep wrongs, fierce distrusts and impellent fears. There are the conflicts of religion and racial persecution. And even before the World War these forces received added ferment from new and fierce ideologies.

These conflicts in concepts, this experience of the treaty-making should indicate how impossible it is for America to resolve the problems of Europe.

In sum, the forces which lay behind the rejection of American ideas at Paris were far deeper than the intrigues of diplomacy or the foibles of European statesmen. Here was the collision of civilizations that had grown three hundred years apart. The idealism of the Western World was in clash with deep forces in Europe with its racial mores and the grim necessities of these twenty-six races.

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7 Feb, 2023 13:45

Russia warns of ‘unpredictable escalation’ in Ukraine

The defense minister has urged the US and its allies against sending heavy weaponry to Kiev

The US and its allies are actively trying to prolong the conflict between Moscow and Kiev for as long as possible, Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu stated on Tuesday.

In order to ensure that the fighting continues, the West has begun delivering heavy weapons to Ukraine, while openly urging Kiev to capture Russian territories, Shoigu said, warning that “such moves areessentially dragging NATO countries into the conflictand could lead to an unpredictable escalation.”

Last month, the US, Germany, and a number of other NATO states announced that they will supply Ukraine’s forces with modern main battle tanks such as the Leopard 2 and the M1 Abrams. Washington also said it will supply Kiev with ground-launched small diameter bombs (GLSDB) with a range of up to 150km – which would allow Ukraine’s forces to strike targets deep within Russian territory.

Commenting on these deliveries, Shoigu stated on Tuesday that the Russian forces continue to “grind up” all the weapons and equipment being supplied to Kiev, noting that the equipment is being destroyed both on the routes of delivery and in combat positions.

Moscow has warned against providing increasingly advanced weapons to Ukraine, arguing that this will only lead to more bloodshed and will ultimately fail to change the outcome of the conflict.

Russia has also said that the West’s increasing involvement and Washington’s “reckless neo-colonialist expansionist policy”have put the world at riskof a devastating global war.

On Monday, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres warned that the world is “sleepwalking” into a “wider war,” and called on all countries to recommit to the UN Charter and put human rights and dignity ahead of short-term thinking focused on economic interests and power

https://www.rt.com/russia/571104-shoigu-nato-ukraine-escalation/

7 Feb, 2023 14:14

Gun fired at US base hosting president’s plane

An intruder was detained at Joint Base Andrews after a resident discharged a firearm, the military reported

An incident involving an intruder has been reported at Joint Base Andrews (JBA), a military facility in Maryland that hosts a fleet of US civilian government aircraft, including Air Force One.

An unidentified man “gained unauthorized access” to the base’s housing area on Monday morning, a statement released by the JBA’s Twitter account said. A resident of the facility discharged a firearm. Security forces arrived at the scene and took the intruder into custody, the statement reported, adding that no injuries or damage have been reported.

Officials have as of yet offered no further details about the incident. When inquired by US outlet Stars and Stripes, base spokeswoman Maj. Lauren Hill cited concerns over the privacy of residents.

A similar incident happened last March, when a 17-year-old man was apprehended while trespassing inside the JBA and found to be in possession of a firearm. Another person escaped the authorities during the incident, which happened just as Vice President Kamala Harris was about to depart the base aboard Marine Two.

Another intrusion was reported in February 2021, shortly before Joe Biden took his first trip as the president via Air Force One.

The base is home to the 89th Airlift Wing, the unit in charge of transporting senior US officials, including the president, the vice president, members of the cabinet and top military commanders.

(Military should have never forced the jab on soldiers)

https://www.rt.com/news/571112-andrews-air-base-intruder/

7 Feb, 2023 12:31

Moscow gives update on Ukrainian losses

More than 6,500 soldiers were killed in January, with hundreds of tanks and other military vehicles destroyed, according to the Russian MoD

The West’s unprecedented military aid to Ukraine has failed to prevent significant losses among Kiev’s forces, Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu said on Tuesday during a ministry conference call.

“In the first month of this year alone, their losses amounted to more than 6,500 military personnel, 26 aircraft, seven helicopters, 208 unmanned aerial vehicles, 341 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, and 40 combat vehicles with multiple launch rocket systems,”Shoigu reported.

With such losses, and realizing that they cannot militarily defeat Russia, Shoigu said Ukrainian authorities have continued to resort to criminal acts aimed at terrorizing the civilian population in Russia’s newly acquired territories, referring to the Donetsk, Lugansk, Zaporozhye and Kherson regions.

“The Armed Forces ofUkraine strike at residential areas, hospitals, and places where civilians gather, and commit terrorist acts at state and social facilities," the defense minister continued, saying such acts were evidence of the Ukrainian authorities “barbaric nature.”

Shoigu also noted that the Ukrainian side had refused to agree on a temporary ceasefire during orthodox Christmas in early January, and continued to carry out intense shelling of civilian targets during the holiday. Kiev’s forces fired over 500 artillery shells during this period, he said.

He stated that Russian forces, meanwhile, had successfully liberated a number of villages in the Donetsk and Zaporozhye regions despite the US and its allies’ continued efforts at prolonging the conflict. The minister vowed that Moscow would continue to ensure the safety of all Russian citizens in the newly acquired territories as well as all Ukrainian citizens that are being subjected to genocide by the Kiev “regime.”

Last month, US Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley admitted that Ukraine was in a “very, very difficult fight” from a military standpoint and noted that it was unlikely that Russian forces would soon be pushed out of the territories Kiev claims as its own.

https://www.rt.com/russia/571103-shoigu-ukraine-losses-update/

7 Feb, 2023 11:19

Kiev inching closer to conceding defeat – ex-Russian president

Dmitry Medvedev cited talks about a ‘Korean scenario’ in Ukraine as evidence of a growing acceptance of “reality”

Discussions of a “Korean scenario” in Ukraine are a sign that Kiev is on the way to recognizing the reality on the ground and accepting its losses, former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has said. The idea of a Korean-style division of Ukraine has been discussed by current and former officials in Kiev, who claim that this is what Russia is pursuing.

The idea that Ukraine could be divided up the way Korea was after the war in the 1950s is “for domestic consumption” and constitutes “wishful thinking,” Medvedev added, citing unnamed “propagandists” as peddling the notion.

What is notable is that “they coyly tested the statement that there can be no victory” and that “being split is the best-case scenario,” the former president said. The ‘Korean scenario’ means that a smaller, US-backed Ukraine could eventually develop to the level of South Korea while maintaining its claims over lost territories, Medvedev explained.

“In essence, this is the first step towards accepting the realities on the ground,” he said.

Korea was split into two parts after a three-year civil war, in which the opposing factions in the north and south were backed by the USSR and China, and the US respectively. Both Pyongyang and Seoul claim sovereignty over the entire Korean Peninsula, and each considers the other government to be unlawful.

Unlike South Korea, Donbass voted in a referendum to become part of Russia rather than forming a sovereign state, Medvedev said, arguing that a ‘Korean scenario’ is not feasible for Ukraine. The former president currently serves as the deputy chairman of the Russian National Security Council.

The idea was floated to the Ukrainian public last month by Medvedev’s counterpart in Kiev, Aleksey Danilov, who claimed that Russia is lobbying EU nations to accept a Korean-style split of his nation, and stated that Kiev would reject it.The Kremlin dismissed the report as a “hoax.”

This week, the Korean scenario was also brought up by Aleksey Arestovich, the former aide to the office of Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky. Speaking at an expert panel discussion on Monday, he stated that Ukraine does not have enough manpower to beat Russia on the battlefield anytime soon, and claimed that a Korean scenario may become an acceptable off-ramp for the parties involved.

Like Danilov before him, Arestovich claimed that Russia is seeking this type of outcome, while noting that the Western nations which Kiev depends upon “think the same way.”

https://www.rt.com/russia/571094-medvedev-korean-scenario-ukraine/

7 Feb, 2023 11:56

Ukraine purges libraries of Russian-language books – official

More than 10 million copies have been pulled from the shelves, a senior Rada MP has said

Ukraine has removed millions of copies of Russian-language books from its public libraries, Yevgeniya Kravchuk, a senior member of the country’s parliament, the Verkhovna Rada, said on Monday.

She stated that the Culture Ministry had provided recommendations on what titles should be taken off the shelves.

This comes amid an initiative declared by the Ukrainian government to “overcome the consequences of Russification,” which in practice means purging schools of certain literature, renaming streets, and dismantling monuments to Russian historical figures.

According to Kravchuk, the deputy chair of the Committee on Humanitarian and Information Policy, 19 million copies of books had been removed as of November, including 11 million in Russian.

“Some Ukrainian-language books from the Soviet times are being removed as well,”Kravchuk said. The MP noted that there was not enough literature available in the Ukrainian language.

“The ratio of books in the Russian and Ukrainian languages in our libraries is very disheartening. We are talking about the need to update the stocks more quickly and procure books in the Ukrainian language.”

Ukraine has a sizable Russian-speaking minority, and many Ukrainian speakers are fluent in Russian as well.

In June, the Ukrainian Education Ministry proposed removing more than 40 books by Russian and Soviet authors from the curriculum. The list included the works of such renowned classical writers as Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoevsky, and Alexander Pushkin, as well as Boris Pasternak and Mikhail Sholokhov, both of whom won the Nobel Prize for literature. Ukrainian Culture Minister Aleksander Tkachenko urged the world in December to “boycott” Russian culture, arguing that Moscow has been using it for propaganda.

Since 2014, Kiev has adopted several laws aimed at restricting the use of the Russian language in the public sphere. Moscow, meanwhile, has described these moves as discriminatory. Last year, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov condemned “Kiev’s policy of aggressive de-Russification and forced assimilation.”

Moscow launched its military operation in Ukraine nearly a year ago, citing the need to protect the people of Donbass, a predominately Russian-speaking region, and Kiev’s failure to implement the Minsk 2014-2015 peace accords.

(1984 is here or is that Animal Farm)

https://www.rt.com/russia/571099-ukraine-purges-russian-books/

7 Feb, 2023 14:11

Ban on Russian media protects ‘freedom of expression’ – Borrellkek!

Moscow is using “manipulation and interference as a crucial instrument” during the Ukraine conflict, the EU’s top diplomat claims

The EU’s crusade against Russian media does not seek to curb free speech but in fact pursues the opposite goal, the bloc’s top diplomat, Josep Borrell, said on Tuesday. His remarks triggered criticism from Moscow, with Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova saying that Russia has viewed the media crackdown as a sign of a dictatorship.

Speaking at a conference dedicated to the EU’s response to foreign disinformation, Borrell said that the sanctions on Russian media “effectively banned them from operating” within the bloc.

“In doing that, we are not attacking the freedom of expression, we are just protecting the freedom of expression,” he argued.

Borrell also noted that the EU is trying to support those media organizations that Russia has classified as ‘foreign agents’,(CIA sponsored) a designation meaning that an entity is either funded from abroad or is under “foreign influence.”

“What I’m saying is not just rhetoric. I cannot go into detail, but believe me, we try to support them in practical terms,” he said, adding that he would not say how in order not to do them “a bad favor.”

In an attempt to defend the EU’s media policies, Borrell claimed that Russia is using “manipulation and interference as a crucial instrument” in the Ukraine conflict. In light of this, the diplomat said that the EU would launch a platform called the Information Sharing and Analysis Center to combat falsehoods.

“We need to understand how these disinformation campaigns are organized … to identify the actors of the manipulation,” he stressed.

Commenting on Borrell’s remarks, Zakharova stated that in the past Moscow regarded the media crackdown as “a manifestation of liberal dictatorship.” But the way the diplomat described these policies in his latest speech made them “sparkle with fresh colors with a shade of delusion,” she added.

In recent years, the EU has unleashed a campaign against Russian media which only intensified when Moscow launched its military operation in Ukraine in February 2022. In March, the EU suspended the broadcasting activities of Sputnik and RT, with the number of blacklisted channels only growing in the following months as the bloc introduced new sanctions against Russia.

https://www.rt.com/news/571111-russian-media-ban-free-speech/

Really funny!Bidan Admin justifying letting the balloon doing its thing. “We collected valuable information and the shot it down”

“Biden’s Sputnik Moment”: Dr. Navarro On The Biden Regime’s CCP Spy Balloon Cover-Up

Navarro explains how it should have been handled

https://rumble.com/embed/v261mee/?pub=4

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Skip the first 3 minutes of Hannity proving he’s got the whole history down

https://rumble.com/embed/v25ztto/?pub=4

7 Feb, 2023 15:32

Iran reveals underground air force base

Built in an unknown location, the ‘Eagle 44’ site can launch fighter jets and drones

The Iranian Army unveiled a new underground air base on Tuesday. Constructed in an undisclosed mountainous location, the base is impervious to bombing and can service, fuel, arm, and launch fighter jets, bombers, and drones.

Video footage of the ‘Oqab 44’ (Eagle 44) facility was shown on Iranian state media. The footage shows what appears to be an F-4 Phantom fighter-bomber emerging from behind blast doors, before taxiing through a wide tunnel and taking off from an external runway.

The base is equipped with command posts, hangars, maintenance sites, fuel depots, and navigation equipment, Iran’s IRNA news agency reported. The Iranian military has constructed several such sites across the country, IRNA added, noting that while their locations remain a secret, all are built “under the mountains.”

Footage from one of these bases – a drone site named ‘Strategic UAV Base 313’ – was revealed by the Iranian military last year. However, ‘Eagle 44’ is the Islamic Republic’s first publicly-revealed underground base capable of hosting fighters and bombers.

“Any attack on Iran from our enemies, including Israel,will see a response from our many air force bases including Eagle 44,”Iranian Armed Forces Chief of Staff Mohammad Bagheri told reporters during a visit to the base on Tuesday.

The unveiling of the base comes at a time of increased tension between Iran and Israel, with Tehran blaming the Israeli military for a drone strike on a military site in the city of Isfahan last month. While Israel neither confirmed or denied its involvement, media reports claimed the attack was masterminded in Tel Aviv, while Ukrainian officials cryptically suggested that the strike was somehow connected to Iran’s alleged supply of ‘kamikaze’ drones to Russia.

Moscow and Tehran have both denied that Iranian drones are being used in Ukraine, with the Kremlin stating that it uses domestically-made UAVs to target Ukrainian military and infrastructure targets.

(Will an anon collect the video?)

https://www.rt.com/news/571121-iran-underground-air-base/

7 Feb, 2023 14:39

Сhechen leader predicts end of Ukraine conflict

The hostilities will subside by the end of the year, Ramzan Kadyrov has said

The Russian military operation against Ukraine will be wrapped up by the end of the year, according to the head of the Chechen Republic, Ramzan Kadyrov. He also predicted thatthe West would be forced to admit its mistakesregarding relations with Russia.

“European nations will acknowledge that their actions were wrong. The West will kneel. And, as usual, European states will have to cooperate with Russia in all spheres. There can be and will be no other outcome,” Kadyrov said in an interview on Tuesday.

Units ofethnic Chechens have been on the frontline in Ukrainesince the start of the campaign. Russian President Vladimir Putin praised them in September for showing “valor and exceptional courage,” noting the tradition of military service alongside other peoples from their nation.

Kadyrov regularly posts videos showcasing Chechen troops in action and reports on their progress on the ground. On occasion, he has publicly questioned some of the decisions taken by the Russian military leadership, including the withdrawal of troops from Kharkov Region in September.

At the time, the Chechen leader urged the Russian Defense Ministryto adopt a bolder offensive strategy. The ministry explained the partial pullout as helping to minimize Russian battlefield losses.

Moscow deployed troops against Ukraine in late February 2022, citing the creeping expansion of NATO and Kiev’s failure to implement the Minsk Agreements of 2014-15, which were intended to form a roadmap for peace in Donbass.

Russian officials have argued that the military operation preempted an attempt by Kiev to retake by force the territories that broke away from Ukraine after the 2014 armed coup in the capital.

https://www.rt.com/russia/571116-kadyrov-ukraine-operation-end/

7 Feb, 2023 14:21

US clarifies stance on talks with Assad amid devastating earthquake

The State Department claims it would be counterproductive to reach out to the leadership of the country amid relief efforts

The US has ruled out contacting the government of Syrian President Bashar Assad despite this week’s devastating earthquake. Türkiye and Syria have been offered aid from numerous other countries around the world after the natural disaster caused widespread destruction.

US State Department spokesperson Ned Price told reporters on Monday that Washington is “a partner to the people of Syria” but claimed it would be “ironic, if not even counterproductive, for us to reach out to a government that has brutalized its people over the course of a dozen years now.”

Instead, Price insisted that the US has “humanitarian partners on the ground who can provide the type of assistance in the aftermath of these tragic earthquakes.” He also argued that Washington has provided “more humanitarian assistance to the people of Syria than any other country going forward.”

Southern Türkiye and northwestern Syria were hit by a series of catastrophic earthquakes on Monday that have so far resulted in over 4,000 deaths and left tens of thousands of people injured. Anumber of countries have offered assistanceto Ankara and Damascus, including sending teams to help with rescue efforts. Russia has already sent over a hundred emergency response specialists to both countries.

Rescue efforts in Syria, however, have been hampered by damage that the country’s civilian infrastructure has sustained over the course of a decade-long war, as well as economic sanctions imposed by Washington.

The US severed relations with Damascus back in 2011 after nationwide protests escalated into a civil war that continues to be waged. Washington has sided with rebel factions in Syria, which include jihadists that have traveled to the country from elsewhere. The Syrian government has described Washington’s assistance to rebel groups as a military intervention. The US and its allies are estimated to be in control of roughly one third of Syrian territory, including parts that are rich in oil and fertile land.

https://www.rt.com/news/571113-us-syria-earthquake-talks/

7 Feb, 2023 12:13

Poll reveals Republican attitudes to Ukraine ceding territory

More than 40% of GOP supporters want a swift end to the conflict, even if that means conceding land to Russia

Four out of 10 Republicans would like Washington to do whatever it can to resolve the conflict in Ukraine quickly, even if that entails making concessions to Russia, according to a poll released on Monday.

In a survey conducted by Gallup, respondents were asked what they would “prefer the US to do in the Russia-Ukraine conflict.” Overall, 31% of respondents said they want Washington “to end the conflict quickly, even if Russia keeps territory.” Meanwhile, 65% believe that the US should “support Ukraine reclaiming territory,” even if it prolongs the hostilities. The results are almost identical to those from a similar poll conducted in August 2022.

The territories in question are the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics, as well as Zaporozhye and Kherson Regions, which overwhelmingly voted to join Russia in autumn 2022. Ukraine still claims the areas as its own, as it does with Crimea, which chose to rejoin Russia in 2014 following the Western-backed coup in Kiev.

According to the Gallop poll, 41% of Republicans want the conflict to end quickly, even if it “allows Russia to keep territory.” In contrast, 53% said they support Kiev’s push to capture its former regions, while acknowledging that the policy could prolong hostilities. The latter option was backed by 81% of Democrats polled.

Republicans are also more inclined to believe that the US is doing too much to help Ukraine, with 47% expressing that belief, as opposed to just 10% of Democrats.

Overall, 28% of Americans believe that the US is providing Kiev with too much assistance, while 30% think that Washington isn’t doing enough. The number of people who are satisfied with the current level of US aid to Ukraine stood at 39% of those polled.

The Gallup survey was released after Swiss news outlet Neue Zürcher Zeitung claimed last week, citing sources, that CIA Director William Burns had offered Russia a “land for peace”deal in which Moscow would keep “20% of Ukrainian territory.” The White House, the CIA, and the Kremlin all denied that such a proposal had been made.

Moscow has repeatedly insisted that it is open to peace talks with Kiev, but only if it “recognizes the reality on the ground,”including the new status of its four former territories as part of Russia.

https://www.rt.com/news/571101-republicans-ukraine-loose-land-poll/

7 Feb, 2023 13:39

Strikes threaten power and fuel supply in France – media

Trade unions have launched a third wave of country-wide walkouts against a planned pension reform

A nationwide strike against a proposed pension reform in France is jeopardizing the country’s power and fuel supply, France 24 reported on Tuesday.

Electricity supply in the country was down by 3.7 gigawatts as output dropped at two nuclear reactors and several thermal plants, the media outlet reported, citing data from power provider EDF. No disruption was reported at hydraulic power plants, but EDF posted a strike notice for Thursday.

Meanwhile, French refineries also reported trouble due to the walkouts, with TotalEnergies saying they were causing interruptions in the shipping of petrol products. However, the company rushed to assure consumers that no shortages have so far been recorded at fueling stations, and that supply levels were largely satisfactory.

A spokesman for the CGT union told Reuters there were delivery disruptions at the Donges, Normandy, Feyzin, Oudalle, and Flanders refineries, with roughly 75% of staff on strike.

The French government presented its pension reform plan earlier this month, which will raise the retirement age for most French workers from the current 62, the lowest in the EU,to 64, and increase the total number of years people must workin order to qualify for a full pension.

Polls show that the majority of the population, over 60%, oppose the reform, and French workers’ unions claim the changes will punish people who started working at a young age or have been working in physically demanding jobs.

https://www.rt.com/business/571096-france-strikes-power-fuel-supply/

My patriot supply on Bannon, clients are trying to faraday cages for EMP hit after the Chinese balloon. He said it will on take three EMPs released to shut down the entire US. Thats how stupid it was to allow China to fly their balloon across America.

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Wownotablewhy are we at war with Russia then?

Who’s causing these earthquakes?

7 Feb, 2023 09:15

New York state hit by strongest earthquake in decades (VIDEOS)

The 3.8-magnitude tremor occurred near Buffalo on Monday

Buffalo, the second-largest city in the US state of New York, was shaken by a 3.8-magnitude earthquake on Monday. The tremor was the most powerful in the area for four decades but did not cause any material damage, local authorities said.

According to the United States Geological Survey (USGS), nearly 3,000 local residents felt the quake, which occurred at about 6:15am. It struck 1.24 miles (2km) east-northeast of West Seneca, a suburb of Buffalo, with a depth of 1.86 miles (3km).

Governor Kathy Hochul posted a tweet confirming the tremor, writing that “no damage has been reported at this time.”

The deputy commissioner of Erie County Department of Homeland Security and Emergency Services, Gregory J. Butcher, said shockwaves were felt as far north as Niagara Falls, and in Orchard Park to the south.

Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz described the quake as feeling “like a car hit my house in Buffalo,” adding that he had “jumped out of bed.”

Yaareb Altaweel, a seismologist at the National Earthquake Information Center, was quoted by NBC News as saying that earthquakes “happen all the time” in the US Northeast.

Since 1983, seismologists have recorded 24 tremors above a magnitude of 2.5 in the West Seneca region, with Monday’s being the most powerful.

Also on Monday, a 7.8-magnitude earthquake wreaked havoc thousands of kilometers away as it hit southeast Türkiye and northern Syria. Less than 12 hours later, a 7.5-magnitude aftershock struck in the same area.

According to the latest reports, the natural disaster has claimed more than 4,000 lives, with the death toll expected to rise further as rescuers clear the rubble.

https://www.rt.com/news/571083-new-york-state-quake/

7 Feb, 2023 16:43

Top seismologist warns Russian region may suffer similar quake as Türkiye

The Russian Academy of Sciences’ Aleksandr Gorshkov predicted Crimea may one day face a disaster akin to Monday’s earthquake

The Crimean Peninsula in southwestern Russia could one day see an earthquake comparable to the natural disaster that struck Türkiye and Syria on Monday, a scientist has warned. The last time the region was struck by a major quake wasnearly 100 years ago.

In an interview with Russian news outlet RIA Novosti published on Tuesday, Aleksandr Gorshkov from the Russian Academy of Sciences explained that “Crimea belongs to the Alpine-Himalayan belt, the same structure as Türkiye,” and “a repeat of such an event is possible in Crimea in principle.”

The most powerful series of earthquakes recorded on the peninsula in recent history took place in 1927. And while the death toll was nowhere near as high as that seen this week in Türkiye and Syria, multiple buildings were leveled.

Since then, there have been several minor quakes in Crimea which have not caused significant damage, including two in January 2021 of less than magnitude 3.

According to the Turkish authorities, more than 3,500 people have been confirmed dead so far, with 22,100 more injured.

In neighboring Syria, the Health Ministry said that more than 800 have perished and around 1,500 sustained injuries in government-controlled areas.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan described the earthquake as the strongest the country has seen since 1939.

The World Health Organization has warned that as many as 23 million people could end up being affected by the quake.

https://www.rt.com/russia/571126-seismologist-predicts-crimea-earthquake/

America’s Workers Have To Brace For Years Of Stagnant Growth, Dr. Navarro Explains

Navarro does his analysis before Bidan takes his victory lap tonight.

Dave Brat did a review of recent employment data says there’s 1,000,000,000 new in workforce, illegal aliens, part time jobs, but they are double counting a person with a full time and part time job as an extra new person got a job. It’s total bullshit. The average earning wage has gone down dramatically. According to Brat there’s only 12,000 new jobs. The Fed is lying their asses off and publishing it in govt data

https://rumble.com/embed/v261pro/?pub=4

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https://www.givesendgo.com/navarro

LEG IRONS AND PRISON – HOW DARE THEY!

Peter Navarro is a brave and dedicated American patriot who deserves a medal for his distinguished White House public service. Instead, they put Peter Navarro in leg irons – and now they want to put him in prison.

During his four years in the White House, Peter Navarro was one of Donald Trump’s most trusted and loyal advisors. As the top China Hawk in the White House, Peter not only saved thousands of factories and helped create thousands of manufacturing jobs. During the pandemic as the Defense Production Act Policy Coordinator, Peter Navarro helped save hundreds of thousands of American lives.

Why do Nancy Pelosi and Joe Biden want to put Peter Navarro in prison now? Because Peter is standing up to a Kangaroo Congressional Committee and standing tallfor our Constitution, President Trump, and our country.

The so-called January 6 Committee that wants to jail Peter Navarro has a much bigger target. That Kangaroo Committee of seven Democrat partisans who first pushed a now discredited Russia Hoax wants nothing more nor less than to put Donald Trump himself in prison – and thereby keep Trump from winning back the White House in 2024.

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THE DEMOCRAT’S TWO-TIERED SYSTEM OF INJUSTICE

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In a civilized, non-partisan America, the FBI would have allowed Peter to voluntarily surrender – and it would have been very simple because Peter literally lives within 50 yards of the FBI.

Instead, an armed squad of FBI agents surveilled Peter to Reagan National Airport on June 3rd, 2020, ambushed him in a jetway, refused his request to phone for legal advice, and then whisked him away for a strip search and leg irons.

As Peter sat for hours in the same jailcell John Hinckley once occupied for shooting a president, Peter was not allowed to contact an attorney.Meanwhile, the Biden regime’s gendarmes leaked the news of this public spectacle to the press – all in their shameless effort to try and humiliate and coerce Peter Navarro into submitting to their illegal will.

Peter is having none of that. He will continue to stand up for the Constitution and his Commander in Chief.

In a civil suit Peter filed just days before his brutal arrest, Peter raised key constitutional issuesthat range from the illegal weaponization of Congress’ investigatory powers and its attendant violation of the Constitution’s separation of powers to the Constitution’s proscription against bills of attainder and the sanctity of executive privilege.

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