Romania:

EU will pay a heavy price for anti-Russian sanctions and it will be a harsh winter, maybe the harshest winter in the last 40-50-60 years for the whole of Europe. The end of the conflict between the West and Russia is still not in sight.

German food prices have risen 12.7% yoy in June, the highest food price increase since records began.

BBC investigation:

SAS operatives in Afghanistan repeatedly killed detainees and unarmed men in suspicious circumstances.

Newly obtained military reports suggest that one unit may have unlawfully killed 54 people in one six-month tour.
https://t.co/ghKv6El4pc

European Commission has decided not to discuss granting Georgia the status of a candidate for EU membership.

It is clear it is because they are not deemed to be sufficiently anti-Russian.

US June Consumer Prices Increase 9.1% yoy

US June Consumer Prices +1.3% versus estimate +1.1%

Has been massive manipulation of gold price in $ terms for several months and massive manipulation of $ with respect to other FIAT currencies in same time period.

Also why US wants Russia at war Ukraine and China at war with Taiwan, because both nations oppose weaponisation of $

There are people in the fintwit world effectively on the payroll of US agencies.

What they fail to realise is they are going to be thrown under the bus by their employees soon enough.

Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Egypt are preparing applications to join BRICS.

Interbank lending in the west continues to rise.

We have been discussing this for months. A clear signal of stresses in the western financial system.

Lithuania will now allow sanctioned Russian goods to transit its territory to Kaliningrad after new European Commission guidelines.

Europe's problem isn't that it is largely dependent on Russia for oil and gas. It is the ideological hatred and the self-induced paranoia fuelled by its own aggressive actions towards Russia that creates this self-fulfilling prophesy.

Japan:

Looking at restarting up to nine nuclear reactors.

Have they considered the need for uranium?

Do they think, like the west, that supermarkets exist from which they can buy commodities?

Unipolarity is the Titanic.

Multipolarity is the lifeboat to get off the Titanic.

Belarus has now added the Yuan to its currency reserves. It is 10% today, but what will it be in 6 months time?

US debt to GDP is meaningless.

It's GDP is at least 50% lower and its true debt and debt obligations many multiples higher.

When you factor in massively bloated asset prices, when all this normalises the fallout will be catastrophic.

Paper gold and by reciprocal extension the silver paper price are being smashed because there are physical shortages.

Hence why paper gold and silver are in backwardation.

Lithuania has agreed with the European Commission on transit to Kaliningrad, out of respect for transatlantic unity.

Admitting they are in the back pocket of the United States as is the EC via the Atlanticists in that organisation.

US Embassy in Kiev:

The security situation in all of Ukraine is unstable and may deteriorate without warning.

Suggests they think Russia might switch to a declaration of war against Ukraine.

Confirmation that Belarus has applied for SCO accession as a full member country.

China has renewed a bilateral currency swap agreement with the Monetary Authority of Singapore.

300bn Chinese Yuan and 65bn Singapore Dollars will be available for a period of five years.