Top US/Ukr Officials Signal Ukr Offensive Ending, Dodge Talk Failure; Big Rus Offensive Rumours Grow; West Humiliated at G20 as BRICS Strengthens

Top US/Ukr Officials Signal Ukr Offensive Ending, Dodge Talk Failure; Big Rus Offensive Rumours Grow; West Humiliated at G20 as BRICS Strengthens
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Washington ‘closer’ to sending longer range missiles to Ukraine – FT

Recent media reports suggest that Washington has already decided to supply Kiev with ATACMS missiles

A decision by US President Joe Biden to send long-range ATACMS missiles to Ukraine “could be coming soon,” a senior government official has told the Financial Times. Other reports suggest that the decision has already been made.

“We’re not taking anything off the table,” Deputy National Security Advisor Jon Finer told reporters on Sunday. “We don’t have a decision to announce on new capabilities but our position all along has been we will get Ukraine the capabilities that will enable it to succeed on the battlefield.”

While Finer’s statement alone does not represent a shift in White House policy, officials speaking anonymously say that the president has edged “closer” to signing off on ATACMS deliveries, the Financial Times reported on Sunday.

“A decision could be coming soon,” a senior official told the newspaper. Two days earlier, another anonymous official told ABC News that “[the missiles] are coming.”

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US finds ‘surprise’ ATACMS missiles for Ukraine – ABC

The delivery of every major weapons platform to Ukraine – such as infantry fighting vehicles, tanks, and fighter jets – has followed a similar pattern; first, American officials deny Kiev’s requests, arguing that supplying the weapons in question would be too escalatory a step. Anonymous officials then tell US media outlets that the Biden administration is reconsidering its position. Finally, a glut of news articles suggest that Biden is ready to sign off on providing the weapons, before the president makes a formal announcement several days or weeks later.

Ukraine has requested ATACMS missiles since last year. However, National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan told reporters last July that handing over these weapons could provoke a “third world war.” White House and Pentagon officials also claimed that the US had too few of the missiles in its stockpiles to spare.

The latter concern has seemingly been alleviated, with two officials telling ABC News that “the US has found it has more ATACMS in its inventory than originally assessed.” Concerns over escalation have also faded, with ABC reporting that the White House is aware that Ukraine will likely use these missiles to strike targets in the Russian territory of Crimea.

Utilized by American forces in the Gulf and Iraq Wars, the MGM-140 ATACMS, or Army Tactical Missile System, has a range of up to 300 kilometers (190 miles) and can be fired from the M270 MLRS and M142 HIMARS platforms, which the US and UK have already sent to Ukraine.

Adding a Touch of Nuance to the UN Sustainable Development Goals

Many people are freaking out over the apparent support for the UN Sustainable Development Goals (UNSDGs) outlined by the BRICS+ group in their recent Declaration.

While I delt with this in some detail in ‘The UN Charter vs Rules Based International Order’ published on September 5th, there are some considerations which I did not share in that location which I would like to briefly touch on today.

“Supporting UNSDGs = You must be Evil”… or is this too simplistic?

Here’s what people need to keep in mind before jumping into the “proof that everyone is controlled opposition” bandwagon:

First: The UN Sustainable Development Goals are wildly general and open to massive interpretation and is made up of 17 points.

Of course the agenda itself emerged un-naturally with an evil intention in the 1990s to promote a new set of dark age values for a Great Reset system that desires global depopulation, stupidification and de-industrialization. However, since the oligarchy can’t say ‘we want to kill everyone and restore feudalism’… they had to use generic broad, generic rosy language with uber-vague goals that are:

1) ‘end poverty’, 2) ‘no hunger’, 3) ‘good health/wellbeing’, 4) ‘quality education’, 5) ‘gender equality’, 6) clean water/sanitation, 7) affordable clean energy, 8) decent work/economic growth, 9) industry-innovation-infrastructure, 10) reduced inequalities, 11) sustainable cities, 12) responsible consumption/production, 13) climate action, 14) clean water, 15) improved life on land, 16) peace-justice-strengthen institutions, 17) build partnerships to make happen.

There is obviously a lot of room for maneuvering here over WHAT AND HOW will these things be defined. For the most part no sane person would think that any of those 17 things are intrinsically evil.

The question is how do you define the problems and what set of values are you applying to address them? If you are a death cultist then you want to value actions on each 17 points which kills people, reduces the effect of life, makes people stupider, selfish and fearful and ironically increases inequality, land abuse, destroys partnerships, undermines life, and all of the other positive generic goals.

The question then becomes: Based on the effects of their policies, ARE China and Russia advancing a death cult agenda?

Is mobility of the individual both social and geographical increasing or decreasing?

Is energy access and affordability per capita, and national increasing or decreasing?

Is poverty decreasing and is longevity increasing?

Are wars increasing or decreasing through their policies?

Are productive industrial forces increasing or decreasing through their policies?

How about business… are entrepreneurs and small and medium business getting punished by ESG, carbon taxes etc, OR are businesses encouraged to access more carbon-based power?

Is the industrial base of China being wired to a dependency on ‘green energy systems like windmills and solar panels’ as they are being sold in the west OR are those green energy systems only used for residential sectors while industrial activity is supported by hydrocarbon, nuclear and hydro power?

CULTURALLY: are the cultures of Eurasian nations being coerced into embracing a woke, nihilistic anti-family, set of values OR the opposite (clue: it is the opposite).

GENDER EQUALITY: I’ve noticed many people freak out over the words “gender equality” as one of the 17 goals… but if you think there aren’t serious issues globally around gender inequality you are out to lunch. Women were just granted the right to drive cars in Saudi Arabia in 2020, and only got the vote in local elections in 2015. Female genital mutilation is still rampant among tribes across Africa, and don’t get me started on the abuses females suffer in both India and Pakistan. This generic topic doesn’t mean you support the woke agena, or want to eliminate the ‘male/female’ sexes nor does it mean enforcing equal outcomes independent of merit.

Additionally, for those who are confused why China, Russia and company speak well of abusive international financial institutions like the World Trade Organization, it is here important to hold in mind that the WTO emerged out of the earlier GATT (General System of Tariffs and Trade) which was created at Bretton Woods in 1944 and generally is also made up of vague rules, goals and propositions without a lot of detail supporting ‘economic justice’, right to trade, economic freedom, blah blah blah.

These institutions are vague, generic and open to being influenced towards the good or towards the evil based upon the reality of political agendas who carry weight. The reason why they are used to destructive ends is because the rules and general principles they promote are not followed so if China, Russia, Iran, etc, believe that they can use their new-found economic weight to influence them towards sanity instead of embracing the alternative which is total war (which means nuclear war), then I get why they would push in that direction.

Lastly, I go into this reasoning with much much more detail, supporting statistics and references in the following locations:

 

Communism, Capitalism and Feudalism: How Nominalism Makes us Fools.

The other article is:

 

Is the Multipolar Alliance ‘Controlled Opposition’? The Case of Two Green Paradigms

 

 

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British mercenary found tied up and killed in Ukraine

Jordan Chadwick was discovered underwater in mysterious circumstances, the UK Foreign Office has confirmed

The body of a British soldier was found tied up in a body of water in Ukraine earlier this summer, the UK Foreign Office confirmed on Friday. It is unclear who killed the mercenary, and Ukrainian authorities have said that an investigation will not be launched until next year.

Jordan Chadwick, who served in the British Army from 2011 to 2015, traveled to Ukraine last October to join the International Legion. Lancashire Police told his mother in June that he had been found dead in a body of water with his hands tied behind his back. The Foreign Office confirmed his death to multiple UK media outlets on Friday.

The 31-year-old’s body was repatriated to the UK last month. The Ukrainian military will open an inquest into his death in February, the BBC reported.

It is unclear where Chadwick died, or who killed him. Likewise it is unclear whether Chadwick was drowned to death, or was dead before he was thrown into the water. 

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Zelensky’s ‘cannon fodder’: The strange lives and pointless deaths of foreign mercenaries fighting in Ukraine

Chadwick is one of more than a dozen British nationals killed in Ukraine since the conflict began last February. Those killed include 22-year-old Samuel Newey, who died in combat last month, and Simon Lingard, who was killed by artillery fire in the unsuccessful defense of Artyomovsk/Bakhmut last November.

Three days after Russian forces entered Ukraine last year, President Vladimir Zelensky put out an appeal for foreigners to join the country’s International Legion. Thousands answered, but stories of ill-prepared recruits, incompetent commanders, and horrific losses soon emerged. The legion shifted its recruitment efforts solely to military veterans shortly afterwards, but foreign fighters in Ukraine have consistently described conditions on the front line as “hell,” with casualty rates in some units reportedly as high as 85%.

Some 12,000 hired guns have traveled to Ukraine since the start of the conflict, the Russian Defense Ministry estimated in July. As of July, just 2,200 remained in the country, with 5,000 killed and the rest fleeing Ukraine, the ministry stated.

However, the commander of the Georgian Legion, another foreign mercenary group, claimed in June that the true number of foreign fighters in Ukraine is much higher. Nearly 20,000 foreigners were serving in Ukraine at that time, Mamuka Mamulashvili told British media, with almost 3,000 British citizens among them.