BRICS, Russia/Cold War 2.0 and the Buzz Around Russia’s New Ultra-Heavy Drone

August 10, 2019, Strategic Culture Foundation (Russia) https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2019/08/10/cold-war-2-and-buzz-around-russia-new-ultra-heavy-drone/

Tim Kirby*

The Cold War perception of space travel as being very human-oriented with man conquering Mars to build the Capitalist or Communist cities of tomorrow has been completely replaced by the reality that drones are much better suited for space exploration than humans. When it comes to military aviation the situation is similar. The strongest and weakest point of any pilot is his brain, which cannot stand the massive gravitational forces that ultra-modern fighter jets are capable of creating. So it is no surprise that at some point the US, Russia and China will unveil a drone big enough and capable enough to replace any current generation bombers and fighters removing the limitations of the human body’s weakness to big gravity from military aviation. And, as of a few days ago the Russians did just that.

The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation just released video to the public of a test of their new massive pilotless aircraft called “The Hunter”. This demonstration was

BRICS, Russia/It’s Back to Cold War Days Over the Baltic

June 16, 2019, Strategic Culture Foundation http://www.strategic-culture.org (Russia) https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2019/06/16/its-back-cold-war-days-over-baltic/

Wayne Madsen*

It was like a day from the 1970s. Except the close encounter between a Russian SU-27 fighter-interceptor and a US Air Force RC-135V intelligence-gathering plane and a Swedish Gulfstream IV spy plane occurred on June 10. The incident, which occurred within Polish maritime airspace near the airspace of the Russian Kaliningrad region, resulted in diplomatic protests being lodged with the Russian Foreign and Defense ministries by the US embassy in Moscow.

The air encounter took place on the second day of the Baltops-2019 NATO naval and air exercise in the Baltic Sea, in which the United States, Sweden (a non-NATO member), and sixteen other nations, including non-NATO member Finland, were taking part. Not taking part in the exercise were NATO members Greece, Hungary, Luxembourg, Canada, Czechia, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Slovenia, Iceland, Croatia, and Montenegro. The exercise was scheduled for June 9-21.

The Baltops exercise was being held under the command of the newly-reconstituted US Second Fleet, which is headquartered in Norfolk, Virginia. The annual exercise concludes with the participating ships and submarines sailing to Kiel in Germany to participate

NATO Continues to Prepare for War with Russia

22.10.2016, Strategic Culture Foundation http://www.strategic-culture.org (Russia)

Peter Korzun

NATO uses any pretext to accuse Russia of harboring aggressive intentions. It has raised ballyhoo over the recent deployment of Iskander short-range surface-to-surface ballistic missiles to the Kaliningrad region.

Time and time again, the alliance reaffirms its bogus Russia narrative. “We see more assertive and stronger Russia that is willing to use force,” concluded NATO General Secretary Jens Stoltenberg speaking at the round table in Passau, Bavaria on October 10.

At the same time, NATO is pushing ahead with its military "Schengen zone" in Europe.

"We are working to ensure that each individual soldier will not require a decision at

Follow the money trail for source of 'Russian threat' paranoia/Sigam a pista do dinheiro para perceber a origem da “ameaça russa”

22 Aug, 2016, TV-Novosti https://www.rt.com (Russia)

You’d have to have been locked in a wardrobe if you live in the West not to have heard ominous phrases like ‘The Russian threat’, ‘Russian aggression in Europe’ and ‘Russia set to invade Poland/Estonia/ Ukraine/Finland’.

Certain people are trying to scare us witless about Russia and the ‘threat’ the country apparently poses. The hysteria reminds one to the build up to the Iraq war, when we were warned every day about the ‘threat’ of Saddam’s deadly WMDs, which - surprise, surprise - turned out not to exist.

Now, we can talk for hours about grand, highfalutin theories in the field of geopolitics and international relations in attempts to explain why this is happening.

But ‘follow the money’ trail is all we really have to do. Ask yourself who benefits financially from all this scaremongering and then

EL ENCUBIERTO "FACTOR HITLER" EN UCRANIA/THE HUSHED-UP HITLER FACTOR IN UKRAINE

29 agosto 2014, Rebelión http://www.rebelion.org (México)

Dovid Katz*

Znet/Consortium News

Traducido del inglés para Rebelión por Germán Leyens

¿Apoyaría EE.UU. cualquier tipo de "hitlerismo" en el esfuerzo del Departamento de Estado para convertir las clases políticas antirrusas de Europa Oriental en modelos de perfección de relaciones públicas que no puedan ser criticados, ni siquiera suavemente?

Fue francamente desconcertante ver al senador John McCain, republicano por Arizona, abrazando al líder del partido Svoboda, de extrema derecha, antisemita, pro fascista, en diciembre pasado. Fue inquietante saber de los elementos neonazis que suministraron la “fuerza” para la verdadera toma del poder de Maidan el pasado mes de febrero (Newsnight de BBC fue uno de los pocos importantes medios occidentales que se atrevieron a cubrir abiertamente ese hecho).

Lo más inquietante de todo ha sido el muro de un grado casi soviético erigido de alguna manera por los medios occidentales dominantes contra cualquier mención crítica del componente de extrema derecha de la historia de Ucrania en 2014, haciendo que cualquier pensamiento semejante fuera digno de ridículo en las páginas de opinión del New York Times durante la primavera pasada.

Lo más cómico fue la publicación en mayo de 2014 en el Times de un artículo de opinión editorial (obviamente escrito por encargo), programado por el Departamento de Estado, de la candidata presidencial ucrania Yulia V. Timoshenko que cita a Churchill escribiendo a Roosevelt “Dadnos los instrumentos, nosotros terminaremos la tarea”, explayándose sobre “la justa y abierta democracia que es el mayor legado de EE.UU. al mundo”.

Esto, de la política de extrema derecha que poco antes había expresado pensamientos genocidas hacia los millones de ciudadanos rusohablantes de su país, y quien fue, durante su período como primera ministra, una devota de primera clase del líder fascista durante la guerra, Stepan Bandera, cuya

BRICS, БРИКС/THE RUSSIA-CHINA COUNTER-ALLIANCE TO US-NATO AGGRESSION

May 26, 2014, Global Research http://www.globalresearch.ca (Canada)

http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-russia-china-counter-alliance-to-us-nato-aggression/5383873

By Alexander Clackson*

Russian President Vladimir Putin has said recently that his meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping earlier this week in Shanghai marked a new stage in Russia-China relations, and that the two countries will roll out all-around cooperation. China and Russia signed a $400 billion (237.1 billion pounds) gas supply deal on Wednesday, securing the world’s top energy user a major source of cleaner fuel and opening up a new market for Moscow as it risks losing European customers over the Ukraine crisis. Furthermore, the two countries began joint military exercises in the East China Sea in a clear show of strength against Japan, a western ally.

The Chinese President has also openly demonstrated his desire to create a counter-alliance to the U.S. Speaking on May 20 President Xi Jinping called for the creation of a new Asian structure for security cooperation based on a regional group that includes Russia and Iran and excludes the United States. Clearly pointing a finger at the United States he called NATO an outdated thinking of the Cold War. According to him, “We cannot just have security for one or a few countries while leaving the rest insecure”. In his speech Mr. Xi Jinping offered an alternative vision for the region based on an all-inclusive regional security framework rather than individual alliances with external actors like the United States. China’s proposal to push forward with the ambitious Free Trade Area of the Asia Pacific