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Boudine:

Ik kwam nog een artikel tegen met een vertaling van een artikel dat de Chinese president Xi Jinping heeft gepubliceerd over de relatie tussen Rusland en China.

Chinese President On Russia’s Role in Crushing Fascism

“To forget history is to commit treason”

I am translating it in full for two reasons.

First, it constitutes a first-hand glance at official relations between China and Russia, which – much to the consternation of neocons, Russophobes, Sinophobes, and Western imperialists – are instead of fighting each other for make benefit of the US are instead building strong relations and continuing to ink dozens of deals whose total value now probably stands at close to a trillion dollars.

Second, to explicitly give the lie to Western propaganda that Russia is somehow “isolated” by the fact that none of Washington’s European stooges turned up at the Victory Day parade in Moscow this May 9th. Who cares? Not many Russians, at any rate. China, India, and dozens of other countries did turn up. That’s the world’s second superpower and the representatives of half of humanity. As for Obama, Merkel, Hollande, and Dave – quite frankly, the air is cleaner for their absence.

Voor wie wil weten hoe de relatie tussen Rusland en China groeit en groeit en groeit…

Boudine:

Een duidelijke analyse van de huidige verhouding tussen de wereldmachten:

War Threat Rises As Economy Declines

By Paul Craig Roberts

For many years now the President of Russia has made the point publicly that the West does not listen to Russia. Washington and its vassal states in Europe, Canada, Australia, and Japan do not hear when Russia says “don’t push us this hard, we are not your enemy. We want to be your partners.”

As the years have passed without Washington hearing, Russia and China have finally realized that their choice is vassalage or war. Had there been any intelligent, qualified people in the National Security Council, the State Department, or the Pentagon, Washington would have been warned away from the neocon policy of sowing distrust. But with only neocon hubris present in the government, Washington made the mistake that could be fateful for humanity.

Rusland en China versterken hun relatie:

Now China invites Russian troops to march in Beijing WWII memorial parade after Putin cosied up with Chinese president in Moscow

Invitation comes after Vladimir Putin seen cosying up to Chinese president
President Xi Jinping attended a VE Day parade in Moscow at the weekend
Russian troops since asked to march in World War Two parade in Beijing
The move is likely to further put off Western leaders from attending event

Boudine:

Paul Craig Roberts over de Russische militaire parade:

Hell Unleashed

By Paul Craig Roberts

This is what the arrogant morons who comprise the US government have stirred up: Watch this video for its entire 1 hour 20 minutes, and then ask yourself if Washington is making a good decision by driving us into conflict with Russia.

Americans, being an insouciant people, are unaware that it was Russians, not England’s Wellington, who defeated Napoleon. The Grande Army did not return from Russia. The loss broke the back of French military power.

The German Wehrmacht, which in a few days overran France and drove the British off the continent, was destroyed in Russia by the Red Army. The allied invasion of Normandy encountered only a few under-strength German units deprived of fuel. The German army and all available resources were on the Russian front.

Americans played a small role in the war against Hitler. Eisenhower cleverly waited until the Red Army had defeated Hitler, and then invaded long after the tide had turned against Germany. Today Washington claims credit for winning a war in which Washington’s role was small.

The US has not won a war since the defeat of Japan. The US was defeated by Third World armies in Korea and in Vietnam.

Boudine:

Why I Wept at the Russian Parade

By F. William Engdahl

May 14, 2015 “Information Clearing House” – Something extraordinary just took place in Russia and it may have moved our disturbed world one major step nearer to peace and away from a looming new world war. Of all unlikely things, what took place was a nationwide remembrance by Russians of the estimated 27 to perhaps 30 million Soviet citizens who never returned alive from World War II. Yet in what can only be described in a spiritual manner, the events of May 9, Victory Day over Nazism, that took place across all Russia, transcended the specific day of memory on the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II in 1945. It was possible to see a spirit emerge from the moving events unlike anything this author has ever witnessed in his life.

Boudine:

Enorme overwinning voor Poetin’s Politiek

Tenzij u Russisch en vrije Russische blogs leest, is dit u wellicht niet opgevallen, maar er heeft iets groots plaatsgevonden in Rusland.

John Kerry, Victoria Nuland en een grote delegatie van het Amerikaanse ministerie van buitenlandse zaken reisden af naar Sochi waar ze de Russische minister van buitenlandse zaken Lavrov en vervolgens president Poetin hebben ontmoet. Met die laatste brachten zij meer dan vier uur door. Niet alleen dat, John Kerry maakte ook een paar interessante opmerkingen door te zeggen dat de Minsk 2 akkoorden de enige weg vooruit was en dat hij de Oekraïense President Poroshenko heeft gewaarschuwd tegen het vernieuwen van militaire acties.

Poroshenko meets with Victoria Nuland in Kiev, Ukraine and discusses Minsk agreements

’US understands it cannot bully Europe the way it tried to’

U.S. Wakes Up to New (Silk) World Order

By Pepe Escobar

May 16, 2015 “Information Clearing House” – “Asia Times” – The real Masters of the Universe in the U.S. are no weathermen, but arguably they’re starting to feel which way the wind is blowing.

History may signal it all started with this week’s trip to Sochi, led by their paperboy, Secretary of State John Kerry, who met with Foreign Minister Lavrov and then with President Putin.

Arguably, a visual reminder clicked the bells for the real Masters of the Universe; the PLA marching in Red Square on Victory Day side by side with the Russian military. Even under the Stalin-Mao alliance Chinese troops did not march in Red Square.

Boudine:

Dit is weer minder goed nieuws, oftewel slecht nieuws:

New Military Spending Bill Expands Empire But Forbids Debate on War

By Ron Paul

May 18, 2015 “Information Clearing House” – On Friday the House passed a massive National Defense Authorization for 2016 that will guarantee US involvement in more wars and overseas interventions for years to come. The Republican majority resorted to trickery to evade the meager spending limitations imposed by the 2011 budget control act – limitations that did not, as often reported, cut military spending but only slowed its growth.

While squashing debate on ongoing but unauthorized wars, the bill also pushed the administration toward new conflicts. Despite the president’s unwise decision to send hundreds of US military trainers to Ukraine, a move that threatens the current shaky ceasefire, Congress wants even more US involvement in Ukraine’s internal affairs. The military spending bill included $300 million to directly arm the Ukrainian government even as Ukrainian leaders threaten to again attack the breakaway regions in the east. Does Congress really think US-supplied weapons killing ethnic Russians in eastern Ukraine is a good idea?

Boudine:

US instructors frustrated with state of Ukraine army

Boudine:

Pepe Escobar is weer eens verrukkelijk!
Why the US is Finally Talking to Russia

By Pepe Escobar

May 20, 2015 “Information Clearing House” – “Sputnik” – So a woman walks into a room… That’s how quite a few jokes usually start. In our case, self-appointed Queen of Nulandistan Victoria “F**k the EU” walks into a room in Moscow to talk to Russian deputy foreign ministers Sergei Ryabkov and Grigory Karasin.

A joke? Oh no; that really happened. Why?