Cracks appearing again:

Borrell said the EU is ready for a diplomatic solution on Ukraine if circumstances permit.

US admitting Ukraine was behind assassination of Dugina, claiming if they knew beforehand they would have opposed it and admonished Ukrainian officials afterwards.

Telling that they publicly revealed this. It is effectively an apology to Russia.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/05/us/politics/ukraine-russia-dugina-assassination.html

Netanyahu has apparently been hospitalised. We await updates.

The clown show continues:

Now the Greeks are talking about wanting reparations from Germany, strangely after a meeting with the Poles.

Europe:

Let's cap Russian oil, that will show them.

Oh, they won't sell it to us.

That's ok, we will buy it from someone else and stick it to Russia that way.

Oh, so it turns out we ended up buying Russian oil from a third party with a hefty premium.

We need more sanctions!

If the Global South trades in local currencies it avoids manipulated dollar strength and in the process avoids potential sanctioning by Washington. Nations are finally waking up to this reality in earnest.

US hegemony continues to consume itself.

Habeck, Germany’s economic minister has accused the US and other friendly gas supplier states of astronomical prices, suggesting they were profiting from the fallout from the war in Ukraine.

Price you pay for being a vassal state. The US is not their friend.

Europe's and US's pathological obsession with sanctions now sees it risking sanctioning itself.

There will be endless history books written assessing what caused this ridiculous meltdown in western civilisation.

It always points to an inflexion point when an empire collapses.

US is continuing to dismantle its own empire by its own ludicrous behaviour.

Now seeking to break up OPEC+, seeing arbitration/prosecution at the WTO and back to seizing assets, this time in the US, of OPEC members.

So EU originally claimed they didn't recognise the results of the referenda but have decided to sanction the four regions they still claim to be part of Ukraine whilst actually admitting they infact believe them to be part of Russia.

So perhaps unsurprisingly Saudi Arabia has raised oil prices for the US, while lowering them for Europe.

So Zelensky called for pre-emptive strikes by NATO.

Now we find Zelensky's press secretary claiming Zelensky was talking about sanctions and not military action.

Suspect someone in Washington picked up the phone and told them to kill this original statement, immediately.

news.sky.com/story/energy-c…

UK plans 3 hour blackouts to prioritise heating. EU agrees to cuts in electricity use.

https://news.sky.com/story/energy-crisis-plan-for-three-hour-power-blackouts-to-prioritise-heating-in-event-of-gas-shortages-as-eu-agrees-to-cut-electricity-use-12713253

Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer continues to refuse to supply Ukraine with weapons but will supply protective equipment, namely helmets and bulletproof vests.

Washington is refusing to give ATACMS ballistic missiles to Ukraine because they are afraid that the Ukrainian Armed Forces will target Crimea, which could escalate the conflict and may lead to a nuclear escalation.

As we keep saying, US will not start WW3 to protect Ukraine.

Unsurprisingly US continues to emphasise the need to walk back any talk of nuclear weapons usage. They have also asked Moscow to soften its stance.

US continues to tread a very fine line between supporting Ukraine and not provoking Russia directly.

Western companies who pulled out of Russia have lost around $230bn.

Russian companies have largely replaced them.

#winning

A fuel storage tank has caught fire on Crimean Bridge, but the viaduct’s navigable arches sustained no damage according to Crimean authorities

As ever wait for the dust to settle on this incident because there is no doubt the entertainers will be out in force with this story

One has to fear that a major red line has been crossed wrt Ukraine war.

If so the Russian response will be to officially declare war. That will sadly and regrettably have serious consequences.

One section of the road link across Crimean Bridge seems intact.

The railway section also appears intact.

However it is too early to be certain of this