Just Passed It
Blinked and Missed It,
Moon of Alabama Germany), and other sites call out the disinformation about Russian bombing of a maternity hospital.
It was recently repurposed as a military installation, and the moms, staff and babies had to go elsewhere.
On March 7 some time after 20:00 UTC the maternity hospital #1 in Mariupol was mention at a UNSC meeting as being occupied by the Ukrainian military.
On March 7 21:01 UTC Lenta.ru published a report from a reporter in Donbas who had interviewed someone who said that the hospital was occupied by possibly Azov or other military forces.
On March 9 about 15:30 UTC the hospital gets bombed and completely destroyed but with astonishing few alleged casualties none of which are documented despite video records taken on the scene shortly after the incident.
Shortly thereafter President Zelensky uses the bombing to publicly press for a 'western' enforced 'no-fly zone' over Ukraine. (There is currently a Russian enforced no-fly zone over Ukraine.)
Moon of Alabama has a fairly comprehensive overview of the broader political and economic war, excerpted here:
The Sanction Backlash Will Push The 'West' To Accept Russia's Demands
In a move that must have been quite humiliating for the White House the leaders of Saudi Arabia and the UAE declined to take calls from the U.S. president. They want the U.S. to designate the Houthi movement in Yemen, which they have been unsuccessful to suppress, a terrorist group:
One hopes that the Biden administration does not fall for these disgusting bribery schemes but he has backed himself into a corner, cutting off Russian oil to punish Putin for a humanitarian crisis in Ukraine, with no alternative but to horsetrade with autocrats over the fate of Yemenis a half a world away. If this is geopolitics, heaven forgive us.
I don't think that the above is the only request the Saudis and UAE leaders will have. They are now in a situation in which they can demand ever more.
Likewise humiliating is the administration's opening of talks with Venezuela which it had sanctioned all around in its attempt to regime change the country. Caracas has released two U.S. nationals from prison. It is willing to talk. But before providing oil to the U.S. market it will demand the lifting of all sanctions and the return of all its assets the U.S. and UK have confiscated. Biden will have difficulties to find a Congress majority in support of such steps.
The return of the nuclear deal with Iran, which would enable more oil output, hangs in balance as Russia demands sanction exemptions for its trade with Iran.
The U.S. had attempted to press Poland to deliver its old Mig-29 fighter jets to the Ukraine. In Russia's eyes that would have been a direct Polish aggression against it. Warsaw found a smart way to avoid that. It offered to deliver the jets to a U.S. airbase in Germany. The tar baby would thereby stick to the U.S. itself. The Pentagon declined to accept that. The jet transfer is now most likely dead.
The U.S. and Europe are only starting to feel the secondary consequences of the all out economic war they hastily initiated against Russia. The war will cause recessions not only in Russia but also all over the 'west'. This while Russia has yet to announce its counter sanctions. There are many steps Russia could take to hurt the 'west' by withholding this or that resource. It is likely to start slowly to then increase the pressure step by step.
This 8:34 minute video of a Russian with relatives and friends in Ukraine, on both sides of the civil war, has English subtitles and is succinct and informative as to what humans are going through, and explains their various actions and perceptions.
https://thesaker.is/ukrainian-front-strategy-without-tactics-must-see/
SouthFront has not had new information since the day before yesterday. There is very little battlefield information getting out, but this is a good update as of Tuesday.
https://southfront.org/war-in-ukraine-day-13-mariupol-trap-closing-eastern-front-next-to-come/
Glenn Greenwald noticed this lack of US message continuity.
Victoria Nuland: Ukraine Has "Biological Research Facilities," Worried Russia May Seize Them
(Senator Marco) Rubio undoubtedly expected a flat denial by Nuland, thus providing further "proof” that such speculation is dastardly Fake News emanating from the Kremlin, the CCP and QAnon. Instead, Nuland did something completely uncharacteristic for her, for neocons, and for senior U.S. foreign policy officials: for some reason, she told a version of the truth. Her answer visibly stunned Rubio, who — as soon as he realized the damage she was doing to the U.S. messaging campaign by telling the truth — interrupted her and demanded that she instead affirm that if a biological attack were to occur, everyone should be “100% sure” that it was Russia who did it. Grateful for the life raft, Nuland told Rubio he was right.
Russia says that China says that the US should come clean about all of those bioweapons labs, and their various historical leaks (COVID?).
China urges Pentagon to open up about ‘biolabs’ in Ukraine
Beijing said that the US defense department controls 336 laboratories around the world
https://www.rt.com/russia/551468-china-details-pentagon-biolabs/
If so, it failed...
Russian Ministry of Defense Accuses Ukraine of Planning Nuclear False Flag
Accuses Ukrainian intelligence of planning to attack a small nuclear reactor and blame Russian Armed Forces
Get the picture yet? It's a new picture.; a different world order.
First, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro declined to condemn the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Then, India followed suit - as the Modi government attempted to balance its historic ties with Moscow and its strategic partnership with Washington.
Now, Saudi and UAE leaders are refusing to take Biden's calls as the US president tries to contain surging oil prices, according to the Wall Street Journal, which adds that the Persian Gulf monarchies have signaled "they won’t help ease surging oil prices unless Washington supports them in Yemen, elsewhere."
"There was some expectation of a phone call, but it didn’t happen," said one US official of a planned discussion between Biden and the Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. "It was part of turning on the spigot [of Saudi oil]."
The U.A.E.’s Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed al Nahyan also ghosted Biden in recent weeks according to Middle East and US officials
Yet, both Prince Mohammed and Sheikh Mohammed took phone calls from Russian President Vladimir Putin after declining to speak with Biden, according to the WSJ. They also spoke with Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelensky.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/saudis-uae-refuse-speak-biden-over-ukraine-situation
The Pentagram is openly afraid to provoke Russia by providing old Soviet era fighter jets to Ukraine.
On Tuesday, Poland announced that it was ready to deploy “immediately and free of charge” its fleet of MiG-29 jets to a NATO base in Germany and hand them over to the US military. In return, Washington would have provided Warsaw with “used aircraft with corresponding operational capabilities” to backfill its fleet...
“We do not believe Poland’s proposal is a tenable one,” the official noted, adding that Washington would continue to discuss the issue with Poland and other NATO member-states. At the same time, he said that Poland was in its right to give its own warplanes to Ukraine, adding that the decision was “ultimately one for the Polish government.”
https://www.rt.com/news/551512-pentagon-poland-fighter-jets/
CONTROL-NARRATIVE PIVOT ALERT:
The U.S. House of Representatives voted on Wednesday to pass a $1.5 trillion omnibus spending bill that includes $13.6 billion in aid for Ukraine and European allies, and would fund the federal government through to Sept. 30.
Hours earlier, Democratic lawmakers scrapped the bill’s initial $15.6 billion COVID-19 aid provision, marking a major setback for the Biden administration who had pushed for weeks to have the additional funds approved.
“We’ve got a war going on in Ukraine,” Pelosi told reporters...
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/house-passes-15-trillion-spending-bill-136-billion-ukraine
"We" need a new control narrative to replace the growth imperative, because that's now impossible, as we used up the best cheapest fossil fuels and high grade ores, and virgin forests and aquifers already. Nate Hagens has the story in a short video with footnotes and links to reference sources. The Human Superorganism
https://www.thegreatsimplification.com/animation/02-human-superorganism
Brakes Failing Downhill
(creeping along making plywood kitchen walls fit just right)
