I hope Pepe Escobar is right.

"The Holy Grail in the evolving discussions about a #multipolar world, since the #BRICS summits in the 2000s featuring Putin, Hu Jintao and Lula, has always been how to bypass #dollar hegemony. It’s now right in front of the whole Global South, as a benign apparition bearing a Cheshire cat’s smile: the golden #ruble, or ruble backed by #oil, gas, minerals, commodity exports."

#Currency
#Hegemony
#Russia
#HegemonicWarUSA

https://thesaker.is/meet-the-new-resource-based-global-reserve-currency/

"When I entered southern #Iraq in the first Gulf War it was flattened. Villages and towns were smoldering ruins. #Bodies, including women and #children, lay scattered on the ground. Water purification systems had been bombed. Power stations had been bombed. Schools and #hospitals had been bombed. Bridges had been bombed. The US military always wages war by “overkill,” which is why it dropped the equivalent of 640 Hiroshima-sized atomic bombs on #Vietnam, most actually falling on the south where our purported Vietnamese allies resided. It unloaded in Vietnam more than 70 million tons of herbicidal agents, three million white phosphorus rockets — white #phosphorus will burn its way entirely through a body — and an estimated 400,000 tons of jellied incendiary #napalm. "

#Ukraine
#HegemonicWarUSA

https://scheerpost.com/2022/03/07/chris-hedges-worthy-and-unworthy-victims/

"Zelensky is a puppet. (...) An astroturf movement is a movement made with money. And the person who made Zelenky is Igor Kolomoisky. He is the most despicable piece of shit that I ever came across who lives in Switzerland. He is a billionaire oligarch and he has three passports: Ukraine, #Israel and Cyprus. It is illegal to have two passports in Ukraine, but he said it is not illegal to have three", tells Gonzalo Lira in this video recorded in Kharkiv

#Ukraine
#PuppetRegime
#Zelensky
#CriticalVoices
#HegemonicWarUSA

#IMF
#UkraineUS
#AgentOfWar
#HegemonicWarUSA

The #IMF lent money to #Ukraine in 2015 with the assumption that the war in Donbass did not exceed the current level of violence. The war was not over. The US and #Europe just pretended it was not happening:

"Lagarde implied this money is not for continuing the war in the #Donbass, but counts on the February ceasefire becoming a permanent armistice. The EFF loan, she said, 'involves risks, notably those stemming from the conflict in the #east of the country.' "

The #loan was arranged by the IMF only six weeks after the coup against #Yanukovich. Six weeks.

Obs: Reconstruction, war efforts or similar expenses cannot be covered by IMF's loans.

Here the story by a Moscow-based independent correspondent:

http://johnhelmer.net/imf-makes-ukraine-war-fighting-loan-allows-the-us-to-fund-military-operations-against-russia-may-repay-russian-bond-and-gazprom-bill-franklin-templeton-bond-deal-in-freefall/

From the Washington Post (which is behind a paywall):

#Ukraine
#Russia
#HegemonicWarUSA

Declassified papers reveal extent of US #military aid to Ukraine – media

https://www.rt.com/news/551291-us-military-aid-ukraine/

"Private equity giant Blackrock has taken a punt on beleaguered #Russian gold miner #Polymetal, doubling its stake to just over 10% even as the stock takes a battering from sanctions imposed against Moscow."

#Capitalism
#FinancialControl
#HegemonicWarUSA

(From Sharecast. I will no put the link here, since the text is Western #propaganda that Putin, the supreme evil, invaded a country "without any provocation" ever. Wall St is making huge profits)

All in the same week:

#Press coverage of --

1. #Russia invasion of #Ukraine
2. #Saudi Arabia (and US) attack on #Yemen
3. US attack on #Somalia
4. Israel attack on #Syria

#Lies
#Manipulation
#WesternPress
#HegemonicWarUSA

https://www.mintpressnews.com/ukraine-russia-war-media-bias-study/279847/

#McCarthysm
#Russophobia
#Madness
#HegemonicWarUSA
#Batman

"A spokesperson for WarnerMedia, which owns Warner Bros., said Monday that the release of The Batman will be halted in #Russia, according to Variety."

#McCarthysm
#Russophobia
#Xenophobia
#Madness
#Music
#HegemonicWarUSA

"A spokesperson for The Killers told Billboard that the band will no longer be performing at the Park Live Festival in #Moscow in July." (Billboard)

#McCarthysm
#Madness
#Russophobia
#Cannes
#HegemonicWarUSA
#Cinema

"The Cannes Film Festival said Tuesday that “unless the war of assault ends in conditions that will satisfy the Ukrainian people,” #Russian delegations or “anyone linked to the Russian government” would be barred from the May festival, according to Variety."

#McCarthysm
#Russophobia
#Xenophobia
#Madness
#Music
#HegemonicWarUSA

In the headline, they are "Putin-supporters". In the text, they are "sympathizers". Pure #mccarthysm. And every one is happy with that

Russian, Putin-supporting musicians banned from playing with orchestra headed to Naples

https://www.winknews.com/2022/02/28/russian-musicians-banned-from-playing-with-orchestra-headed-to-naples/