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Alex Krainer: Economic Collapse & the End of Europe

Glenn Diesen interviews Alex Krainer on the Economic Collapse & the End of Europe

Alex Krainer: Economic Collapse & the End of Europe

Alex (Sasha) Krainer: Founder at Krainer Analytics. Monaco, Monaco. Author of #1 rated book on commodities, “Mastering Uncertainty in Commodities Trading,” and “Alex Krainer’s Trend Following Bible”; creator of I-System Trend Following – engineering, implementing and maintaining bespoke, high performance turn-key portfolio solutions (with audited track record); publisher of TrendCompass daily market reports; contributing editor at ZeroHedge.
https://x.com/NakedHedgie

Glenn Diesen is a professor of Russian international affairs, with focus on geoeconomics, conservatism and the Greater Eurasia Initiative. Professor at University of South-Eastern Norway
https://x.com/Glenn_Diesen


Eurasia, the “World Island”


Bonus: KunstlerCast 420 — Tom Luongo of Gold, Goats and Guns, Talkin’ Europe, Russia, and America in a Dangerous Year
https://www.kunstler.com/p/kunstlercast-420-tom-luongo-of-gold?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

Tom Luongo is a Former Research Chemist, Amateur Dairy Goat Farmer, Anarcho-Libertarian and Obstreperous Austrian Economist who blogs and podcasts at Gold, Goats and, Guns. His work can also be found on sites like Zerohedge, Lewrockwell.com, Bitcoin Magazine and Newsmax Media. His work focuses on the attempt to connect the false narratives of geopolitics to viable long-term investment theses. He built the house that he lives in and loves hockey, his family, the art of drumming, board games of all kinds, a logically consistent argument, and the beauty of spontaneous order…. not necessarily in that order.


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On the Matter or Ukraine

by DAVID BROWN | CLEARNFO.com | March 06, 2022

The media are uninformed and lack any real context

What is the context? The US installed their own puppet government in Ukraine in 2014. Since that time, Ukraine has been shelling and murdering its own citizens in the Donbas for eight years which are mostly ethnic Russians. For five days before the Russian incursion this year, Zelensky and the Azov Battalion were shelling the Donbas non-stop and murdering civilians in the Donbas. This is why the break-away countries —Donetsk and Luhansk— are asking for Putin’s help.

There is no evidence of “Russian shelling of a nuclear power plant” There was a training facility building that was hit but we do not know who hit it. Also this nuclear facility is designed to take a direct missile attack. It is bad journalism to assume this was a Russian attack when there was no evidence. If Russia intended on attacking this facility, it would have been leveled to the ground.  BTW, There is plenty of evidence that Ukrainian forces –not Russian– hit the building near the nuclear facility. As to motive: there would be no upside for Russia to have a major release of  radioactive contamination, while there is plenty of motive for  Zelensky and his handlers in the West to use this for propaganda purposes against the Russian incursion — which of course they did with no evidence.

More context…

Putin did not invade Crimea. There was no invasion. Crimea voted 97% to re-associate with Russia to gain protection from the neo-Nazis backed by the US and NATO after the US State Department removed the legitimately elected government in Ukraine in a bloody putsch using their tried and true Operation Gladio techniques called the strategy of tension in 2014. George Soros is even on tape bragging about helping the CIA do this. We have copies of documents where Pierre Omidyar helped in this operation. Pierre is another multi billionaire globalist and founder of eBay and First Look Media. Pierre also bought PayPal in 2002 and stopped all funding to Julian Assange’s WikiLeaks.

Why are there real Nazis in Ukraine?
• Stalin starved some 10 million Ukrainians during the Holodomor (1932 – 1933)
• Anti-communist and nationalist Hitler stupidly invaded Communist Russia called Operation Barbarossa in 1941.
• The Ukrainians – remembering Stalin’s Holodomor in 1932—assisted Hitler in his failed attempt to squash the communist Soviet Union led by Stalin.
• So, to this day many Ukrainians hate Russia and some are neo-Nazis.
• The US State department used this historical division to execute its well-oiled operation Gladio in 2014 to install an anti-Russian puppet government which hated ethnic Russians living in Ukraine. They outlawed the Russian language and started attacking and killing the mostly Russian speaking people in the Donbas area (Donetsk and Luhansk) killing some 10K innocent men, women and children.
• These neo-Nazis were installed and funded by the USA.

Russian legitimate interest in Ukraine
• Why is Ukraine important to Russia? Russia has a 1,426.07 mi border with Ukraine and is traditionally known as the bread basket of Russia.
• Why is Crimea and Sevastopol important to Russia? Since the city’s founding in 1783 it has been a major base for Russia’s Black Sea Fleet. The Black Sea is Russia’s only warm water port providing access to the Mediterranean Sea. Think strategic. The US envisioned taking this away from Russia.
• Why is Putin pissed at NATO? Because the US gave Russia assurances that NATO would not move one inch further East. The US and NATO lied. They not only moved an inch they moved 800 miles and are now surrounding Russia with offensive military installations. The US has been pouring billions in arms into Ukraine using its own installed puppet government.

NOTE: U.S. Secretary of State James Baker’s famous “not one inch eastward” assurance about NATO expansion in his meeting with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev on February 9, 1990, was part of a cascade of assurances about Soviet security given by Western leaders to Gorbachev and other Soviet officials throughout the process of German unification in 1990 and on into 1991, according to declassified U.S., Soviet, German, British and French documents posted today by the National Security Archive at George Washington University.
https://mltoday.com/new-document-us-promised-not-to-e..

So now let’s talk about why Putin initiated an incursion into Ukraine.

  • Minsk agreements – were a series of international agreements which sought to end the war in Donbas region of Ukraine.
  • Ukraine and the US refused to abide by this agreement or even discuss it. Why? Because the US wanted to orchestrate a war.
  • Putin warned NATO and the US not to make Ukraine another NATO outpost because this would threaten Russia security. The US ignored Putin and gave him the finger.
  • US murdering ethnic Russians by proxy using its installed government in Ukraine.

Nord Stream 2: 1,230 km (767 mile) pipeline from Russia to Europe. Russia had their doubts about building a second pipeline, but Germany desperately needed this energy after shutting down its nuclear powerplants and insisted on building this pipeline. Russia really didn’t need Nord Stream 2 to sell their Gas since China is also in great need for Russian energy. Russia gave in and agreed to the pipeline thinking I’m sure this would provide more influence over Europe. Now, Germany –against their will and better interest– has delayed the certification of this pipeline under pressure from the USA.

Related information:

From John Smith: “whose vehicles drove into the power plant yes they where taking fire at the Nuclear Power Plant but who stood out of the vehicle and shot an RPG at it. We saw it live while watching webcam LIVE we saw the vehicles shooting at the building to the right. Yes there was firing back and forwards to me i saw flares from the Russians but rockets of some sort incoming was definitely the Ukrainians . I will share a link from original source skip to time stamp 1hr in.”

From ClearNFO:


UPDATE:

“NO EXTENSION OF NATO’S JURISDICTION  FOR FORCES OF NATO ONE INCH TO THE EAST of a unified Germany” – US Secretary of State Baker to Gorbachev, 1990.

Declassified documents show security assurances against NATO expansion to Soviet leaders from Baker, Bush, Genscher, Kohl, Gates, Mitterrand, Thatcher, Hurd, Major, and Woerner

“U.S. Secretary of State James Baker’s famous “not one inch eastward” assurance about NATO expansion in his meeting with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev on February 9, 1990, was part of a cascade of assurances about Soviet security given by Western leaders to Gorbachev and other Soviet officials throughout the process of German unification in 1990 and on into 1991, according to declassified U.S., Soviet, German, British and French documents posted today by the National Security Archive at George Washington University

The documents show that multiple national leaders were considering and rejecting Central and Eastern European membership in NATO as of early 1990 and through 1991, that discussions of NATO in the context of German unification negotiations in 1990 were not at all narrowly limited to the status of East German territory, and that subsequent Soviet and Russian complaints about being misled about NATO expansion were founded in written contemporaneous memcons and telcons at the highest levels.

The documents reinforce former CIA Director Robert Gates’s criticism of “pressing ahead with expansion of NATO eastward [in the 1990s], when Gorbachev and others were led to believe that wouldn’t happen.”

The first concrete assurances by Western leaders on NATO began on January 31, 1990, when West German Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher opened the bidding with a major public speech at Tutzing, in Bavaria, on German unification. The U.S. Embassy in Bonn (see Document 1) informed Washington that Genscher made clear “that the changes in Eastern Europe and the German unification process must not lead to an ‘impairment of Soviet security interests.’ Therefore, NATO should rule out an ‘expansion of its territory towards the east, i.e. moving it closer to the Soviet borders.’” The Bonn cable also noted Genscher’s proposal to leave the East German territory out of NATO military structures even in a unified Germany in NATO.

This latter idea of special status for the GDR territory was codified in the final German unification treaty signed on September 12, 1990, by the Two-Plus-Four foreign ministers (see Document 25). The former idea about “closer to the Soviet borders” is written down not in treaties but in multiple memoranda of conversation between the Soviets and the highest-level Western interlocutors (Genscher, Kohl, Baker, Gates, Bush, Mitterrand, Thatcher, Major, Woerner, and others) offering assurances throughout 1990 and into 1991 about protecting Soviet security interests and including the USSR in new European security structures. The two issues were related but not the same. Subsequent analysis sometimes conflated the two and argued that the discussion did not involve all of Europe. The documents published below show clearly that it did.

The “Tutzing formula” immediately became the center of a flurry of important diplomatic discussions over the next 10 days in 1990, leading to the crucial February 10, 1990, meeting in Moscow between Kohl and Gorbachev when the West German leader achieved Soviet assent in principle to German unification in NATO, as long as NATO did not expand to the east. The Soviets would need much more time to work with their domestic opinion (and financial aid from the West Germans) before formally signing the deal in September 1990.

As late as March 1991, according to the diary of the British ambassador to Moscow, British Prime Minister John Major personally assured Gorbachev, “We are not talking about the strengthening of NATO.”