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Dec 27 2022 
Let the Patriot Games Begin
By Pepe Escobar and first posted at Strategic Culture
Little did we know that by 2023 the raging would go beyond paroxysm, Pepe Escobar writes.
It’s idle to dwell on the cringe-worthy visit of the Kiev clown to Crash Test Dummy at the White House, coupled with a “Churchillian” speech at the War Party dominions in Capitol…
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Dec 27 2022 
Lavrov: interview with TASS
Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s year-end interview with TASS news agency, December 27, 2022
Question: The launch of the special military operation in Ukraine and ensuing developments, including an unprecedented deterioration of our relations with the West, was the main event of the outgoing year. Do you think the conflict in Ukraine can last a long time,… -
Informal summit of CIS heads of state
The Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library in St Petersburg hosted an informal meeting of the heads of state of members of the Commonwealth of Independent States.
Attending the meeting were President of Russia Vladimir Putin, President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev, Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan, President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko, President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, President of Kyrgyzstan Sadyr Japarov, President of Tajikistan Emomali Rahmon, President of Turkmenistan Serdar Berdimuhamedov and President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev.
Traditional informal…
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Dec 27 2022 
Lavrov speaks to Russian Media
Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s opening remarks at a working meeting with senior executives of the Russian media, Moscow, December 26, 2022
Summary:⚠️ Everything that we are now witnessing in Europe in its broadest sense and on other continents, where US “messengers” want every country to take an anti-Russia position, to join the sanctions and to keep…
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Russia dropping US dollar for Chinese Yuan – and fast
From Ben Norton and excellent research as usual:
In response to Western sanctions, Russia’s central bank is dropping the US dollar and plans to buy Chinese yuan on the foreign exchange market. The yuan’s share of trading on Russia’s currency market increased from 1% to 40-45% in less than a year, while dollar trade halved from…
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Tentative forecast: Ukraine SMO
This is a writing from the TG channel Donbass Devushka written by a regular contributor Alcibiades. My comments follow:
Alcibiades on the War: Ultimatum.
Something’s caught my attention over the last several days. Russian leaders have, across the board, become noticeably more substantive in their rhetoric about the war and where it’s going. Specifically, I noticed that…
