Raisi is on an official 3 day visit to Beijing and is the first Iranian leader to visit China in over 20 years.

West's seismic error of judgement was to assume because Russia didn't scorch earth Ukraine on Feb 24th 2022, that they lacked military capability to do so. Hence then erroneously believing Russia's failure to take Kiev in 3 days meant they definitely lacked military capability

Now we find NATO nations are running low on ammunition and military hardware to send to Ukraine and the West is admitting that Russia is running multiple factories 24/7 producing huge quantities of ammunition and military hardware.

Seymour Hersh Interview

Interview starts around 8 min 18 second mark

http://exiledonline.com/wnradio/rwn_episode_366_021123_v3.mp3?s=09

US CPI January 6.4% versus 6.2% expected.

Clown show continues, this was obvious as we previously pointed out, price cap is farcical:

Goldmans reported that it increasingly looks likely that Russia has been selling oil much higher than the quoted spot price.

This reached around $25 per barrel in December.

NATO members having problems with tank deliveries:

Netherlands will not be able to supply Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine. Decision was made after consultation between Netherlands and Germany

Appears Netherlands is no longer able to buy 18 Leopard 2s from Germany and send to Ukraine

Sticks and stones perhaps?

Clearly running out of ammunition to send:

Britain is training Ukrainian soldiers to fight in a more "Western way" and use less ammunition than the traditional Soviet way of fighting

https://t.co/VqdWOvTdGC

As US hegemony continues its sharp decline, Washington has been reduced to making statements which bear no relation to the reality on the ground. That's all they now have left. Desperate act of a failing empire.

Milley: Russia has lost strategically, operationally and tactically.

Meanwhile Ukr keeps demanding higher velocity weapons. West is fearful of Russ offensive.

This will be US defence if Russia prevails. Spinning outcome to hide their humiliation.

Only reality will prevail.

Most spectacular policy decision failure made wrt Ukraine war, namely Western sanctions imposed on the Russian central bank, has been replaced by the Nordstream pipeline sabotage.

Ultimately this will have a devastating impact on the western alliance.

Stupidity of NATO summed up:

Russ stated from day 1 it sought to demilitarise Ukr. So how could this come about?

Ensure NATO ends up running out of munitions and military hardware to send to Ukr and only possible by ensuring war progressed slowly.

Here we are today.

The calibre of the west can easily be summed up by the fact that a consensus was reached that we can blow up gas pipelines belonging to an ally and no one will be able to point the finger of blame at us.

It's beyond absurd.