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Russia and NATO already in ‘direct confrontation’ – Kremlin

The bloc’s expansion and its involvement in the Ukraine conflict have put Europe’s security in jeopardy, Dmitry Peskov has said

The current state of relations between Russia and NATO can be described as a “direct confrontation,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said. He claimed that the US-led military bloc has been a destabilizing force in Europe rather than ensuring the continent’s security.

He made his comment on Thursday, as the bloc marked 75 years since the signing of its founding document, the North Atlantic Treaty.

Since the start of the Ukraine conflict, NATO has provided Kiev with billions worth of military aid and weaponry, as well as sharing intelligence and helping to train Ukrainian troops.

“The bloc itself is already involved in the Ukraine conflict. NATO continues to move towards our borders, expanding its military infrastructure towards our borders… In fact, our relations have now descended to the level of direct confrontation,” Peskov said at a press-briefing.

He stated that the organization had been created as an “instrument of confrontation” in Europe, and is fulfilling its purpose to the detriment of the entire continent.

“NATO continues to fulfill its purpose, which currently, however, in no way contributes to security, predictability and stability on the continent, but on the contrary is a destabilizing factor,” Peskov explained.

Multiple Western leaders have warned that Russia may attack NATO once the Ukraine conflict is over. Moscow has repeatedly dismissed those claims.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said last month that talk of a potential Russian attack on NATO countries is simply propaganda by their governments aimed at scaring their own population to “beat the money out of them.”

Moscow has for years voiced concerns about NATO’s expansion toward its borders, viewing the US-led military bloc’s policies as an existential threat. However, it has also warned that NATO’s more pronounced involvement in the Ukraine conflict, in particular, the possibility of a troop deployment to the front lines, would be seen as an intervention. This, according to an earlier statement by Putin, would take the conflict “one step shy of a full-scale World War III.”

https://www.rt.com/russia/595395-nato-russia-direct-confrontation/

Putin said YES

Zelansky said NO

Zelensky ignored interview requests – Tucker Carlson

Ukrainian president Vladimir Zelensky snubbed multiple invitations by US journalist Tucker Carlson for an interview, the former Fox News host has revealed.

Carlson recently recorded a lengthy interview with Russian President Vladimir Putin, a first by a Western reporter since the conflict with Ukraine began, in which they discussed the ongoing hostilities and Moscow’s standoff with NATO. The exchange went viral globally, with over 200 million views on X (formerly Twitter) alone. Carlson then announced his intention to offer Zelensky a similar platform.

The journalist revealed his attempts to contact Zelensky in a video on Wednesday. In a monologue before his interview with Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, Carlson said he had invited House Speaker Mike Johnson to explain why he wants Congress to “fund a doomed war.”

“Of course, he hasn’t responded,” the journalist explained,“we also sent multiple requests to Zelensky himself for an interview to explain his position. Of course, he ignored that as well.”

He went on to argue that, no matter how much foreign money Kiev receives, it cannot defeat Moscow on the battlefield, given Russia’s larger population and industrial capacity.

“It’s not working. Two years in, the war is still going,” Carlson said. “Ukraine can’t win. Everybody knows that around the world. People are very clear on that. There is not one informed person outside the United States who thinks that somehow Ukraine is going to beat Russia.”

A vocal critic of Zelensky, Carlson has accused US news organizations of not being truthful about the origins and nature of the conflict. He noted that media bias was one of the reasons he wanted to sit down with Putin in the first place.

In the interview with Carlson in Moscow in February, Putin reflected on the centuries of shared history between Russia and Ukraine, and stressed that he has no intention of attacking NATO unless Russia is attacked first. Zelensky dismissed the interview as “more than two hours of bulls**t.”

READ MORE: Ukraine conflict, fallout of NATO expansion, relations with US: Key takeaways from Putin’s interview with Tucker Carlson

The Ukrainian leadership has increasingly attempted to pressure Western countries to provide more military aid in an effort to reverse the tide after a string of battlefield losses. Kiev has been frustrated by US House Republicans who refuse to back President Joe Biden’s $61 billion aid package, which has been stuck in Congress for several months.

https://www.rt.com/russia/595370-zelensky-ignored-tucker-interview/

>>20677763

Redflavored

shit you not

>>20678345

How Was the United States Government Funded Prior to Income Tax?

Prior to the passage of the 16th Amendment in 1913, the United States government funded its operations mainly through excise taxes, tariffs, customs duties and public land sales. The federal government had relatively few expenses compared to today and did not have as much need to raise large amounts of money.

The History of Tariffs

In peacetime during America's early decades, most of the federal government’s revenue came from import taxes called tariffs. The U.S. Congress passed the Tariff Act of 1789 to help generate revenue to pay off its war debts and to encourage and protect manufacturers in the northern states. Congress also passed major tariff bills in 1816, 1824, 1828 and 1832.

https://pocketsense.com/united-states-government-funded-prior-income-tax-12769.html

need a little help

What year was it in the late 1800's that congress had a crisis because of too much money and did not know what to do with it?

Before the income tax

All of the money came from tariffs

anyanon know the year or what the crisis was called?

Trying to find an article to post and only getting recent bs.

>>20678413

tyvm

>>20678413

all I'm seeing is "the panic of 1837"

articles saying there was no money

thinking we're talking about 2 different things