It doesn't matter what your perspective on the war is, for the US to seek to arm Ukraine until the west is drained of munitions and then complain if China assists Russia has sent another clear signal to the Global South to embrace multipolarity as quickly as possible.

European officials fail to grasp that China is never going to suggest to Russia to withdraw their forces from Ukraine.

Does it get anymore obvious?

Who do you think really benefitted from WW1 and WW2?

Bretton Woods 1944
Dollar WRC 1944
IMF 1944
World Bank 1944
CIA 1947
NATO 1949

Endless dissection and speculation about operational activities wrt Ukraine war is meaningless and that is borne out by how rarely anyone has been correct about such things.

What matters is when war ends, what outcome will be and impact on future direction of planetary affairs.

One of the many ongoing failures of west and particularly the US is this completely flawed belief that China wants to be a hegemonic power and that this view is shared and demanded by the Chinese people.

How much aid has UK provided to Ukraine?

Number of UK children in food poverty has nearly doubled in last year to almost 4m.

22% of households reported skipping meals, going hungry or not eating for a whole day in January, up from 12% yoy.


https://t.co/j9AdRI2RAV

Attitudes are changing to reflect the new reality:

Is Putin winning? The world order is changing in his favour.

https://t.co/npDAjXI3Fm

Multipolarity in action:

A new bus assembly plant co-built by Chinese and Saudi companies, has started production in Egypt.

Elvira Nabiullina, governor of the Russian Central Bank, is travelling to Iran.

Ukraine is a given. Nordstream should be top of agenda:

On a two-day visit to Washington to see President Biden, Germany’s chancellor, Olaf Scholz, wants to get straight to business. The question many in Berlin are asking is what that business is.

https://t.co/EbKx1UK3Sn

Have been looking through old emails. Have around 2000 related to Ukraine from 2014 and 2015 alone.

There a few of us who have been looking at Ukraine before the Maidan in 2014.

Prigozhin's statement that Zelensky should order a Ukrainian withdrawal from Bakhmut is reverse psychology. He actually wants them to stay and bring in more reinforcements.

The unravelling of crypto is ongoing and 2023 could be a watershed moment.

Worth posting again, March 2022.

Russia's conduct in the brutal war tells a different story than the widely accepted view that Vladimir Putin is intent on demolishing Ukraine and inflicting maximum civilian damage.

https://t.co/jyNj24tkSC

Taiwan is an island and doesn't share a border with a NATO country. Taiwan is 17x smaller than Ukraine. Taiwanese support for independence is exaggerated by the west.

Small details matter.

Large details too, such as.

US doesn't want direct conflict with China.

If Russia was to sign a military agreement with China including an Article 5 type clause, the Taiwan question would disappear rather quickly.

We have a new undisputed leader in the clown show stakes:

Germans considering building a tank factory in Ukraine.

The second its completed, what do they imagine is going to happen to that construction.

Seriously, is no one in the German govt asking this obvious question?

Encouraging and irrespective an important development:

IAEA and the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran have reached agreement on cooperation between the two sides.

Argentina senses weakness in the UK by walking away from the cooperation pact they signed wrt the Falkland Islands and now demanding new talks over the island's sovereignty.

Since talking about multipolarity became fashionable we are seeing people trying to claim that space as another expert. Unsurprisingly they don't have a clue. Be informed, not entertained.