By John Helmer, Moscow
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Not since James Forrestal jumped off the sixteenth floor of a US Navy hospital in 1949, has a US cabinet secretary displayed more psychopathological symptoms than Antony Blinken, the current Secretary of State. Can Blinken’s announcement this week of terms for ending the Ukraine war be believed in a US military psychiatric clinic, let alone in the Kremlin in Moscow?
And what can be believed when, the day after Blinken’s remarks, Victoria Nuland, the most psychopathological Under Secretary of State in the record of the office, announced to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that she and Blinken are ready “in the context of Russia’s decision to negotiate seriously and withdraw its troops from Ukraine and return territories, I would certainly support that [easing of sanctions].”
What Nuland meant by the Ukraine and the territories to be “returned”, Blinken had disclosed the day before. Crimea, Zaporozhye and “the land bridge that connects Crimea and Russia”, meaning Kherson, Donetsk and Lugansk, will remain Russian and will not be negotiated or “returned” because, said Blinken, “an assault on Crimea would be a tripwire for nuclear escalation.”
For the time being there has been no Russian acknowledgement of either Blinken’s or Nuland’s statements.
Listen now to the TNT Radio discussion of what is happening behind the scenes in Washington and Moscow – a breaking news story which has blindsided the mainstream media and also the alternative media.
Read the Blinken statement of Wednesday morning, January 25, and President Vladimir Putin’s response in the afternoon.
Here is the TNT discussion led by Jeremy Beck at 10 in the Moscow morning, January 26.
Source: https://tntradiolive.podbean.com
Follow the map of the Russian missile targets during the morning of January 26, noting that the far west of the Ukraine, the Galician region around Lvov, was not struck.
Source: https://readovka.news/news/129829
Late on Thursday evening, there were additional drone strikes in the west, which included Khmelnitsky and Ladizhin.
Here is the official text of Nuland’s opening statement to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on January 26; and here is what Nuland replied in answer to a question from Republican Senator Rand Paul on Russian sanctions. Rand then told Nuland the sanctions are a form of race war: “If we’re going to sanction people for their belief and, you know, their sort of nationalist version of the world, then we won’t have any, we won’t have any discussion between people or any legislative exchange. That would be about 90 percent of the people. I would venture to say that every member of the Duma probably supports Crimea. This is their perspective.”
Steve Hook asks the questions, and here is TNT Radio’s explainer, starting at Minute 17.
Source: https://tntradiolive.podbean.com/
As we were speaking, the US Treasury announced it is issuing new sanctions against the Russian special operations military group, Wagner. This was the Treasury announcement. Wagner is far from being the largest mercenary and paramilitary force in operation across the world. The biggest of them is the British headquartered military contractor called G4S. The US mercenary force known as Blackwater, then Xe, and now Academi and Constellis is also larger than Wagner, and is operating in US Government- backed proxy wars in the Middle East, Asia and Africa. For a list of the leading state-financed “private military contractors” by the governments which pays the tab, read this.
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