Boeiend maar ook ontluisterend voor Europa: het gesprek van Patrik Baab met Michael von der Schulenburg over de Oekraïne-oorlog. Deze Duitse Europarlementariër was jarenlang als topdiplomaat van de VN betrokken bij vredesonderhandelingen, b.v. tijdens de Iran-Irak oorlog. Hij werkte in het veld met verschillende oorlogvoerende partijen. Von der Schulenburg legt het falen van de EU bloot: het onvermogen te onderhandelen met de Russen. Dat is het gevolg van de weigering om de oorzaken van de oorlog onder ogen te zien: NAVO en EU uitbreiding met als gevolg het dreigende verlies voor Rusland van de strategische positie aan de Zwarte Zee. Analytisch uiterst scherp en ongepolijst kritisch op het EU parlement door een man met praktijkervaring. youtube.com/watch?v=hhgMD7i5…

What the NATO left used to say about the nazis in Ukraine before they sold out

In 1957, a Russian immigrant published a novel of more than a thousand pages built around one question: what happens if the people who make the world run simply stop? Its title is Atlas Shrugged. In France it's called La Grève, The Strike. It wasn't even translated into French until 2011. That tells you something. This morning, I think Elon Musk wrote the sequel. A. Where the book comes from. Ayn Rand was born Alisa Rosenbaum in Saint Petersburg in 1905. As a teenager, she watched Bolshevik soldiers walk into her father's pharmacy and seize it in the name of the people. Her family lost everything. Not to a competitor. To a committee. She fled to America in 1926 and spent the rest of her life writing about one distinction: those who create, and those who seize. B. The story. In Atlas Shrugged, America is sliding into decline. Not because of war. Because of rules. Year after year, a growing class of bureaucrats, regulators and planners decides that production must be controlled, shared "fairly," frozen. They never build anything. They issue directives. The worst one freezes every worker in his job and forces every inventor to hand over his patents for the public good. And one by one, the people who make the country run start disappearing. The best engineers. The industrialists. The inventors. An oil man sets his own wells on fire before vanishing. The whole country keeps repeating a question it doesn't understand: "Who is John Galt?" John Galt is the man behind the disappearances. He has convinced the creators to go on strike. They withdraw to a hidden valley in the Colorado mountains, where everyone keeps what they make and trades freely. And they let the world find out what it looks like without them. The lights go out in New York. The grey men are left alone with their directives, and discover that a directive has never produced a single kilowatt. C. The core idea. The strike isn't about money. It's about consent. Rand's insight is that the system that captures the creators runs on their cooperation. It needs them to keep producing so it has something to redistribute. The bureaucrat is a parasite who needs a host. Remove the host, and he's exposed as what he always was: useless. D. What Musk just did. This morning, Musk announced that next year he will give one of his own SpaceX shares to every kid in America. "The first of many." Here's what's fascinating. It's the strike, run in reverse. Rand's creators withdrew. Musk stays. He keeps building rockets, satellites, AI. But instead of walking away from the system, he walks around it. The value goes straight from the builder to the citizen. No ministry, no agency, no committee in the middle. Rand had to make the creators disappear to prove the bureaucrats were useless. Musk doesn't need to disappear. He just needs to stop routing value through them. Same result. The grey men are left standing in the middle of a pipe nobody uses anymore. E. The difference that changes everything. Rand's strike has a flaw her critics never stopped pointing out: ordinary people are left behind. The creators retreat to their valley. The rest of the country sits in the dark. Musk's version fixes that. He isn't taking the creators out of the world. He's bringing the world into the valley. Every kid in America becomes a shareholder in the machine. Not a spectator of the strike. A participant. That's the alliance being formed right now: builders and citizens, directly, with nothing in between. And the only people who lose that deal are the ones who never built anything. F. Why now, and not in 1957. In Rand's time, the strike was a fantasy. You couldn't produce at scale without the state's permission, and you couldn't reach every citizen without its pipes. In 2026, one founder can build rockets, run a global network from orbit, and pledge equity to 73 million children in a single post. AI will soon do in seconds what a ministry does in years. The tools of the strike finally exist. And they don't require anyone to leave. G. The ending. For seventy years, "Who is John Galt?" was a shrug. A way of saying nothing can be done. In the book, the strike ends when the creators decide the road is clear and walk back into the world to rebuild it. That's the scene we're watching. Not a man leaving. A man coming back, with a gift for every child. The grey men are about to discover what Rand promised them seventy years ago: a world that no longer needs them.

Pat Buchanan, 1999: “By moving NATO onto Russia’s front porch, we have scheduled a twenty-first century confrontation. … America will face a hellish dilemma: risk confrontation with a nuclear-armed Russia determined to recreate its old sphere of influence, or renege on solemn commitments and see NATO collapse.” Therefore, he said, “Offering NATO memberships to Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and, as some urge, Ukraine is rashness bordering on madness.” Referring to maps the Clinton team must have ignored, Buchanan warned, “This would put the Russian base at Kaliningrad behind NATO lines and bring into a U.S.-led alliance three nations with huge Russian minorities.” Foreseeing future conflict, he observed that “Latvia is almost half Russian; eastern Ukraine, almost entirely Russian. America could neither defend nor liberate these nations without the risk of nuclear war.” Pat Buchanan, A Republic, Not an Empire: Reclaiming America’s Destiny (New York: Regnery, 1999), 17–18, 22.

Jeffrey Sachs: "I recommend to readers Professor Ivan Katchanovski’s book The Russia-Ukraine War and Its Origins: From the Maidan to the Ukraine War (Palgrave Macmillan, 2026), which is available free of charge as an open-access publication at link.springer.com/book/10.10…  and sets out the detailed evidence on the violence of February 2014."

The worst case scenario for Ukraine is unfolding: it's mired in a catastrophic war against a more powerful foe, that has cost it hundreds of thousands of lives and vital territory. It wouldn't be in that war had Joe Biden and his bipartisan neocon allies, among other things, not dangled a NATO "open door" they had no intention of actually opening, and then opposed the peace deal that Ukraine negotiated with Russia in April 2022. That's because, as former Zelensky spokesperson @IuliiaMendel argues, "the western political establishment would rather see Russia burn than Ukraine saved." Someone who foresaw this disaster was your former boss Barack Obama, who resisted bipartisan neocon pressure to escalate in Ukraine. You're among the Obama admin vets to challenge Biden's support for the Gaza genocide. Continuing to stand by his pet proxy war against Russia only extends the worst case scenario for Ukraine.

Check this out: “As a former RNLI Crewman Volunteer of 15 years let me educate you of Maritime Law if I may. When these rubber boats set off from France overloaded, the French are breaking maritime law by not intercepting them and returning them to shore. When these illegal migrants boats have sailed almost 3/4 of the way to the UK and now in British waters, the RNLI and Border Force are sent out by the Coastguard on the instructions of HM Government to intercept them. They do this because if the rubber boats are allowed to land on uk soil under their own steam then everyone on board becomes an illegal immigrant and by law MUST be detained and deported asap. However when they are picked up at sea, even if only 200 yards offshore, and in no danger whatsoever, then the RNLI and Border pick them up and they are longer called illegals - conclusion The French and The British are doing this on purpose - WHY?”

Prof. John Mearsheimer: 'We are not going to be able to bring the Iranians to their knees by adding a US aircraft carrier to the region, even if we end up with three carriers there, which is highly unlikely. It’s hard to believe that President Trump would be foolish enough to launch a land invasion, but if he does, he is not going to succeed, and it will only make his situation worse. All this is to say that we have no military option here. We have no military option today, and we are not going to have one after the midterm elections. With regard to the economic side of the equation, there is no question that the United States is inflicting massive pain on the Iranians. And if I am wrong, and they do reach the point where they feel they are about to go off a cliff, they will take everybody off that cliff with them. That would be disastrous for the international economy. It would be disastrous for President Trump, and there is no way he would be able to claim victory. You cannot bamboozle the Iranians. At this point, they are simply too smart, too knowledgeable and too experienced in dealing with the United States to allow themselves to be conned into thinking that we have the upper hand.'

Jeffrey Sachs is the only person who walked into the European Parliament and said the obvious.

Russia is not targeting civilians - Larry Johnson at UNSC Allied Bombers dropped 2.7m tons of TNT on Europe, with around 650K killed civilians. This is 240K dead for a million tons Russia dropped 2.5m tons of TNT on Ukraine (according to Ukraine), with 16.4K killed civilians. This is 6.5K dead for a million tons This shows that Russia is trying hard not to hit civilians. Compare that also to the death rate in Gaza. The West had instigated a sophisticated disinformation campaign against Russia. It is falling apart.

John Pilger, a man of immense intelligence & honestly wrote this in 2014. A factual article, its contents never acknowledged today. "Ukraine has been turned into a CIA theme park. In Orwellian style, propaganda in the west has inverted this to Moscow."

February 2014. Maidan Square, Kyiv. John McCain filming the protests, standing shoulder to shoulder with US Ambassador Geoffrey Pyatt, while Victoria Nuland stands just behind them. A striking snapshot of Washington’s direct involvement in Ukraine’s political upheaval. The same officials who spoke so confidently about democracy were right there amid the turmoil surrounding the removal of a democratically elected president. This raises an uncomfortable question: was this truly about defending Ukrainian democracy, or about Washington advancing its own geopolitical agenda at Ukraine’s expense?

Jeffrey Sachs delivers a stark warning against the drive toward war with Russia and China. Europe’s political leadership is sacrificing peace, sovereignty, and economic development to preserve a collapsing geopolitical order. From Ukraine to Iran, the refusal to challenge military escalation threatens humanity with catastrophe. The alternative is diplomacy among sovereign nations, grounded in mutual security and economic cooperation. “Stop trying to force Russia into a ‘humiliating defeat.’ Above all, avoid that because that is a death wish. You want some stupid American general saying, ‘We could take Kaliningrad, no problem.’ And then when Putin says, ‘We’ll use all means to defend it.’ Then having all these stupid pundits saying, ‘Oh, he’s just bluffing.’ I’m so sick of these pundits. Is the idea really humiliation? So, what is this arming to go to war with Russia? They have 1,600 actively deployed nuclear weapons. Are you kidding? What are you thinking? Europe is not standing up for Ukraine. Europe is killing Ukraine. This is not about a ceasefire. This is about a European politician standing up and saying, ‘Mr. Putin, NATO will not enlarge to Ukraine or to Georgia. Now, let’s stop the war.’ Sit down and talk. We are nearly at war with China. Why? Because China has grown up again. In fact, they have an unbelievable temerity to have a larger economy than the United States. How dare they threaten American hegemony? This is insane. How many wars do we need in this world? And by the way, I didn’t hear Europe speak a murmur about America’s attack on Iran. That is a brazen, murderous violation of every single international standard we have. The day of the attack, the Security Council met that afternoon. And I was asked to testify. And I sat there in growing absolute shock. The Bahraini ambassador was the first to open the meeting and said, ‘We are meeting here today to condemn the unprovoked attack by Iran on Bahrain.’ Okay, I thought, ‘That’s a little weird. Unprovoked?’ But it went on the whole session this way. The French ambassador, the British ambassador, the Greek ambassador, nobody in Europe said the United States should not have started a war against Iran. My view is there is no reason for a war with Russia. There is no reason for a war with China. There’s no reason for a genocide in Gaza. For God’s sake, honestly, I love Europe, but not this political leadership right now. I don’t understand it.” Humanity cannot survive a geopolitical order built on imperial hegemony and permanent war. The alternative is dialogue among sovereign nations, mutual security, and cooperation for peace and economic development rather than nuclear catastrophe.

Soviet Union collapsed because no one was prepared to challenge the establishment from the inside and everyone inside had to keep cheerleading that the Soviet Union was powerful and successful. Anyone on the outside could see it was collapsing very rapidly. The US is doing precisely what that Soviet Union did. Those inside the system will not challenge the establishment either becasue they are thoroughly brainwashed or out of fear of being cancelled and thrown to the wolves. Everyone inside the establishment continues to cheerlead the notion that the US empire is here to stay, exceptionalism reigns supreme, the dollar can't be challenged, we are the greatest military and economic / financial power in the world. Anyone looking in from the outside knows this is utter nonsense. Rather like even the day before the Soviet Union collapsed the delusional cheerleading continued, the same will also happen in the US. In both cases they didn't and won't see the writing on the wall, 24 hours before it is officially over.

The Guardian 12 years ago actually carried an article stating that we were being dragged into war in #Ukraine. So why have so many liberals fallen for the NATO propaganda? Wake up, people, before it's too late! theguardian.com/commentisfre…

Ce moment précis où Victoria Nuland, en 2016, se vantait devant le Congrès américain de la manière dont Washington avait pris le contrôle total de l’Ukraine après le coup d’État de 2014. Elle l’a tout déballé sans aucune honte : 🔴 Des agents américains infiltrés dans une douzaine de ministères ukrainiens. 🔴 Des policiers formés par les Américains patrouillant dans 18 villes. 🔴 Le Trésor américain qui a démantelé 60 banques ukrainiennes tout en épargnant les déposants pour calmer les gens. 🔴 Des centaines de millions de dollars canalisés pour façonner l’armée ukrainienne. Arrêtons les conneries, ce n’était pas de l’« aide », c’était une prise de contrôle déguisée en assistance. « Injustifiée » 😂😂😂😂 x.com/ricwe123/status/211168…

Russland er en stormakt med verdens største arsenal av atomvåpen som kan leveres med hypersoniske raketter som vi ikke har noe forsvar mot. De har en enorm høyteknologisk industriell base fundamentert på verdens rikeste energi og ressurstilgang i kombinasjon med en av verdens mest sofistikerte militærindustrielle kompleks. De er også mer eller mindre alliert med verdens soleklart største realøkonomi med en industriell kapasitet som får resten av verden til å se ut som 7.klasse sløyd. Hadde det ikke vært bedre for Norge å ha et godt forhold til Russland i stedet for å aspirere til å bli en proxy-arena for amerikanernes forsøk på å utmatte dem? Vi kunne i det minste opplyst våre landsmenn om at krigen i Ukraina ikke var et uprovosert angrep fra russernes side, men en forsvarskrig for å hindre at Krim, Donbas og Svartehavet ble bastioner for amerikansk eskaleringsdominans over Russland? Vi kunne selvsagt også opplyst om at de millionene av russisktalende sørøst-ukrainere som de vestukrainske etnonasjonalistene (også kjent som "nazister") ville enten etnisk rense, eller kulturelt utrydde, også har krav på menneskerettigheter og beskyttelse? Men, neida. Vi valgte i stedet en levestandardsforringende lavskala-evighetskrig med potensiale for når som helst å eskalere ut av kontroll til et menneskehetsutslettende atomragnarok. Vi er rett og slett genier!

These commitments were violated. Now NATO propagandists claim that leaders of the Alliance never promised to abandon eastward expansion. It was a painful, but useful lesson for Russia: don’t be naive when you deal with the West.

Their reports are banned, criminal cases are opened against them, and their social media accounts and bank accounts are blocked. This is how foreign correspondents who dared to tell the truth about Donbass are silenced in their own countries: the shelling by the Ukrainian Armed Forces, the deaths of civilians, and lives and homes destroyed. They are the protagonists of the film 'Donbass: Truth in the Crosshairs'. x.com/SMO_VZ/status/21119392… In our video, you will find out who these people are and why they risk their lives. This film is part of the program of the international documentary film festival 'RT.Doc: Time of Our Heroes'. Do you want your work to be shown on the big screen as well? Submit it to the 5th International Festival. Applications are now open for the main and international competition programs.

Western media tells you Russia "Invaded Crimea?" When Russia went in to protect the population from Ukro Nazi militias, nearly 8,000 Ukrainian soldiers walked over to the Russian side and joined them. The people cheered. A liberation not an invasion