By Drago Bosnic | June 19, 2023

Respecting deals between countries or governments goes back millennia and includes civilizations such as Sumerians and Ancient Egyptians. This was always considered a sort of litmus test of a certain countrys or rulers reputation and it stuck for a very long time. In essence, this practice predates the very concept of international law and is in many ways its direct predecessor. However, it would seem certain countries havent really got the memo about how important respecting treaties is and what disastrous consequences may follow if one doesnt.

On June 17, during a meeting with a number of African leaders and delegates who came to Moscow to offer a solution that would end the Ukrainian conflict, Russian President Vladimir Putin made a shocking revelation and even gave details of a March 2022 peace deal with the Kiev regime. The agreement, titled the Treaty on the Permanent Neutrality and Security Guarantees for Ukraine (negotiated with the mediation of the Turkish government), was actually signed by the Kiev regime. However, the Neo-Nazi junta decided to discontinue its compliance with the treaty as soon as Russia kept its own initial end of the bargain.

Apart from other, more technical details, the deal included a clause that was supposed to be one of the key points of the Ukrainian Constitution and that would guarantee the countrys permanent neutrality. The very fact that Russia was insisting on this makes the claims that Moscow allegedly wanted to conquer Ukraine a moot point. In return for neutrality, the Russian military was to pull out and effectively end the special military operation (SMO). To back up his claims, President Putin also presented the relevant documentation of the abortive peace deal to the African delegates.

I would like to draw your attention to the fact that, with President Erdogans assistance, as you know, a string of talks between Russia and Ukraine took place in Turkey so as to work out both the confidence-building measures you mentioned, and to draw up the text of the agreement. We did not discuss with the Ukrainian side that this treaty would be classified, but we have never presented it, nor commented on it. This draft agreement was initiated by the head of the Kiev negotiation team. He put his signature there. Here it is, Putin stated and then presented the documents.

The documents also revealed that apart from Russia, other guarantors of the agreement were the United States, the United Kingdom and France. The only non-Western guarantor was China. The deal als...

The intensifying trade dispute between the United States and China, particularly within the semiconductor sector, has added layers of complexity for technology exporters worldwide. A notable player caught in this conflict is South Korea, a country whose economy relies heavily on its semiconductor industry and whose geopolitical ties with the US and China create an intricate balancing act.

South Korea maintains a commanding position in the global semiconductor market, with industry leaders Samsung and SK Hynix responsible for the majority of worldwide memory chip production. The notable impact of this industry on the nations economic health is apparent, as electronics form a substantial portion of South Korean exports, with estimates as high as 30%. Furthermore, the US and China represent South Koreas two largest export markets, making any future export bans or stipulations by either side a costly adjustment for South Korean manufacturers.

 

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Why It Seems Everything We Knew About the Global Economy Is No Longer True

While the worlds eyes were on the pandemic, China and the war in Ukraine, the paths to prosperity and shared interests have grown murkier.

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Andrew Anglin The Unz Review June 17, 2023

I know Ive said it six million times, but the Ukraine war on the ground is virtually irrelevant in comparison to the effects of the Ukraine war on geopolitics.

It would have mattered if Russia could have lost, but they cant lose. The critics are now saying they are winning too slowly, but even if that weird claim were true, it is irrelevant.

Last week, a very big development happened: China sent armored trucks to Chechnya.

A video of Chinese-built armored vehicles posted this week by the leader of Chechnya, a backer of Russia's war in Ukraine, is raising new questions of whether equipment from China could be used to support Moscows campaign.@jamestareddy @austinramzyhttps://t.co/QnFvo7qlRn

Jonathan Cheng (@JChengWSJ) June 9, 2023

I had asserted from the beginning that China would not let Russia lose the war, because China cannot afford to have Russia fall to the West.

Several well-known right-wing commentators were saying that China would never commit material to Russias war effort, even whilst theyve already committed in full to propping up Russias economy. They were wrong and I was right (as usual).

I dont even bother to follow the day-to-day of the war. Its too autistic. And it does not matter.

What matters is that because the US started this psycho war on purpose, then used it as an excuse to try to collapse the government of Russia through sanctions, the whole world is in the process of cutting ties to the Americans.

It was pure hubris that led the US to think they could use the Ukraine as a battering ram to bring down the Russian state. This will be the downfall of the Anal Empire.

All the things that I said would happen are happening.

It would be too much to say that the Russians planned it this way. Clearly, they did not. We can see from the initial invasion that Putin and Lavrov assumed that the US would negotiate. Anyone who suggests that the Russians are so stupid they believed they could conquer a nation of 40 million people with 150,000 soldiers is just lying to you. The initial invasion was obviously a negotiation tactic.

What they ended up with the whole world on their side, and a lead role in the new world order is more than they could have ever hoped for.

It was a perfect...

 June 18, 2023 Batoul Wehbe United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken embarked on what can only be described as a carefully choreographed visit to Beijing, marking the highest-level trip by a US official to China in nearly five years. The ostensible goal? To stabilize the already strained ties between the two powers. But lets []

 

BY ANDREW KORYBKO | JUNE 18, 2023

Newsweek published an extended interview with Pakistani Defense Minister Khawaja Muhammad Asif on Saturday in which this official repeatedly returned to the state of democracy in his country. This de facto theme pervades the entire text since he continually referenced this falls elections as supposedly being the key to resolving Pakistans economic crisis. Asif insists that theyll be free and fair without any meddling from his countrys military-intelligence structures, The Establishment, but this isnt true at all.

Former Prime Minister Imran Khan (IK) was deposed in April 2022s post-modern coup precisely because The Establishments leading representative at the time, former Chief Of Army Staff Qamar Javed Bajwa, colluded with his domestic opponents to oust him after first securing tacit American approval. Pakistan then entered into a series of cascading crises that continue to this day, with its economic one being the focus of considerable international attention due to the countrys potentially impending bankruptcy.

Political stability is the prerequisite for resolving the economic crisis from which the others have largely stemmed, but The Establishment refused to allow truly free and fair early elections like IK and his supporters requested because then their post-modern coup would have been for naught. Those who carried out that regime change have financial, ideological, personal, and professional stakes in preventing his return to office, which explains why theyve so passionately opposed him since then.

The approximately 18 months between IKs removal in April 2022 and the next scheduled national elections in fall of this year were supposed to give The Establishment enough time to meddle in Pakistans democratic process to ensure that he doesnt win. This was first done through indirect means by having their media proxies falsely allege that there was supposedly no basis to the oil deal talks that he claimed to have held with President Putin during his trip to Moscow in late February 2022.

The associated innuendo was that his claim of being overthrown by an American-approved but superficially democratic plot as punishment for his independent foreign policy...

Hindustan Times June 18, 2023

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Putin reveals details of draft treaty on Ukraines neutrality

azerbaycan24.com June 18, 2023

Moscow and Kiev agreed on the general terms of Ukraines neutrality and security guarantees during the peace negotiations in March 2022, but Kiev then abruptly discarded the documents its delegation had already signed, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Saturday.

During a meeting with a group of African leaders in St. Petersburg, Putin showed for the first time the draft documents that were being discussed by the Russian and Ukrainian emissaries in Trkiye more than a year ago.

According to Putin, the document titled the Treaty on the Permanent Neutrality and Security Guarantees for Ukraine had been signed by the Ukrainian delegation.

The draft stipulates that Ukraine must enshrine permanent neutrality in its Constitution. Russia, the US, Britain, China, and France are listed as guarantors.

The addendum to the draft, also shown by Putin, outlines both Russian and Ukrainian proposals regarding the size of Ukraines standing army during peacetime, as well as its equipment. Moscow proposed to cap the number of military personnel at 85,000 and the number of the National Guard members at 15,000. Kiev, meanwhile, proposed that its Armed Forces have up to 250,000 troops.

Moscow suggested that Ukraine should be allowed to have 342 tanks, 1,029 armored vehicles, 96 multiple rocket launchers, 50 combat aircraft, and 52 auxiliary aircraft. Kiev, meanwhile, was in favor of having 800 tanks, 2,400 armored vehicles, 600 multiple rocket launchers, 74 combat aircraft, and 86 auxiliary aircraft.

The sides also exchanged proposals on capping Ukraines mortars, anti-tank weapons, and anti-air missile systems, among other equipment.

The negotiations effectively broke down in the spring of 2022 shortly after Ukrainian officials accused Russian troops of killing civilians in several small cities around Kiev. The allegations were made immediately after Russian soldiers had withdrawn from the areas outside the Ukrainian capital in what the Kremlin described at the time as a goodwill gesture. Moscow has since repeatedly denied committing atrocities in Ukraine.

Speaking on Saturday, Putin said that Ukraine was responsible for sabotaging the negotiations. After we pulled our troops away from Kiev as we had promised to do the Kiev authorities had tossed [the draft treaty] into the dustbin of history, he said. They abandoned everything....

[I Am Pizza in Siem Reap, Cambodia on 2/14/23]

Linh Dinh Substack June 17, 2023

In Siem Reap four months ago, I had an awful pizza with fake cheese, so wrote about it. Within hours, some anonymous, of course, left a comment at my blog, What the fuck is that white stuff, asshole? There has to be a better way to voice his disagreement or doubt, but such is the world we live in. Unhappy psychos jam the Jewjewed West.

Speaking of which, Anyjewname Anyjewsurname opines at my SubStack, Hard to read about Jews as you write! Are you in the cause of a new round of crematory stoves? Are you in the counterinformation business? Doing a mixed salad about who are the n-a-z-y-es in Ua, may i call you Adolf?

Another mistake (?!), combating vaccines put you in the select squad of Apocalipse cavaliers, working hard for the death. (Only in my country, more than half a million, and no argument can change this.) Staggering into gibberish, he goes on.

Biden to American Marines in Japan on 5/18/23, My son was a major in the US Army. We lost him in Iraq. Beau Biden died of brain cancer in Maryland.

Biden in DC on 6/14/23:

China has their Belt and Road Initiative. It turned out to be their debt and destruction initiative. No, Im serious.  Not a joke.  Well, were going to win, and were going to help.

We have plans to build a railroad from the Pacific all the way across the Indian Ocean.

Biden supporters will claim his railroad line was a joke. Theyre partly correct, because Biden is a running gag to the rest of the world and a howler on Americans. Moving from Trump to Biden, their contempt became even more naked, but they have nothing to fear. Americans are so easily herded or cowed.

With German boys in white shirts and indigo ties behind him, Quinton Caesar (she/her) thundered in Nuremberg on 6/11/23, Now is the time to say, We are the last generation! Now is the time to say, Black lives always matter! Now is the time to say, God is queer!

Like some near-death drag queen, the West has become very tiresome and obnoxious, when it makes any sense at all. Thats why countries are fleeing from its economic, military and cultural web.

In November of 2022, Russias Duma unanimously approved a complete ban on LGBTQ, pedophilia and sex-change propaganda in all advertising, books, movies and media. Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin argued this measure would protect our children, the future of the country, from the darkness spread by the US and European states.

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Via: ZeroHedge: Co-founder of Microsoft Bill Gates traveled to China this week and met with Chinese President Xi Jinping. It was the American tech billionaires first trip to China since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, with his prior visit being in 2019, and is against a backdrop of simmering US-China tensions. President Xi []