Pepe Escobar
Strategic Culture Foundation

💬 The only art that the Prince must totally master it’s the art of war — Machiavelli
💬 The Supreme Warrior Wins Without Fighting — Sun Tzu

This was supposed to be the calm before the storm. Where the Epstein Syndicate would schmooze the Global South gathered in New York for the – comatose – UN General Assembly and seduce them with assorted “gifts”, wooing them away from the impending Great Debacle and deflecting attention from the breathtaking speed of the collapse of Pax Americana.

Cut to Wednesday, when we have Day One of the UN General Assembly Debate, with Neo-Crassus/Neo-Caligula/Goldfinger/Psycho Toddler supposed to deliver a speech. On the same day, he meets with the Gulf petro-sheiks for what could become some sort of suicidal pact.

And then on Friday, Xi Dada in person comes to the U.S. on an official state visit. (Invisible) sparks are guaranteed to fly. All that would guarantee that the nearly inevitable New Demented Offensive on Iran and the Axis of Resistance might be postponed for a few days.

But then hysteria re-reigned all over again, as panicked imperial stakeholders were faced with some startling facts on the ground, from zero Saudi oil exports and to “burn, baby burn” at Riyadh airport. Cue to the thundering sound of scurrying bling bling cockroaches. They seem to realize that hitting Iran again, now, is beyond dangerous, as the escalation ladder will go totally out of control – complete with Tehran finishing off the scared-to-death petro-sheikhs. So the cockroaches did find out, the hard way, that whatever happens Iran is bound to become the oil hegemon of the Persian Gulf.

Strategic Culture Foundation (Editorial)
Strategic Culture Foundation (fondsk.ru)

Belarus and the White House are ready to shift to a new format of engagement

Relations between Belarus and the United States have changed markedly over the past year. Until recently, direct political dialogue between Washington and Minsk seemed impossible; today, however, White House representatives visit Minsk almost constantly, meeting personally with Alexander Lukashenko and engaging in highly respectful conversations with him.

This shift in Washington’s policy toward Belarus—Russia’s closest ally—matters not only for bilateral relations but also for the broader agenda, including resolving the conflict in Ukraine. Consequently, John Cole's visit to Minsk on September 15–16, as a special envoy for Donald Trump, can be seen as a key element of the international processes currently unfolding in Eastern Europe.

It is worth recalling that under the previous White House administration led by Joe Biden, U.S. policy toward Belarus relied primarily on sanctions and support for the Belarusian opposition. However, with Donald Trump’s rise to power, Washington’s approach to Minsk has shifted in certain respects. While the U.S. has not abandoned its negative assessment of Belarus’s political system or the sanctions it previously imposed—which the White House views as a negotiating tool—it has prioritized direct dialogue with Belarusian authorities as part of a "deal-making" approach.

Martin Jay
Strategic Culture Foundation

Israel’s Ben Gvir just told Argentina the Falklands are theirs – while Israel quietly co-invests in Falklands oil.

Andy Burnham’s decision to supposedly sanction Israel’s goods coming from the West Bank was not a surprise to anybody, given that he had let it be known he would do it soon after entering Downing Street. What was a surprise, though, was Israel’s reaction. Obviously, this dictatorship which pretends to be a democracy had to react in a manner whereby it would appear to be responding, even if the response was petulant – and so closing down the UK consulate and barring a posy of Labor MPs seemed to do the job.

But in the same week of the news emerging, Israel went much further in demeaning relations with London by goading Argentina towards conflict with the UK over the Falkland Islands. It might seem odd to some, but Israel seems to operate in an irony-free zone. So Ben Gvir, a modern-day genocidal maniac who recently called for a minimum quota of 30 Palestinians to be slaughtered every day, and who we can safely claim has his hands more than drenched in the blood of the reported 70,000 dead Palestinians in a genocide which is still ongoing, recently had a rant on X pointing the finger at London, accusing the British of stealing oil from the Argentinians and “occupying the islands”. Given Israel’s expansion into Lebanon and its talk of “expansionism” into parts of Syria and Iraq, one would have thought the last people on the planet who would be in a position to accuse the British of imperialism would be far-right-wing Zionists. He writes:

Perhaps what makes the tweet even more absurd, though, is how Gvir fails to mention in his post that Israel is a joint investor with a UK company in oil exploration off the islands. Perhaps he is hoping that the British part of the venture will pack up and leave, giving the whole shop to the Israelis?

Strategic Culture Foundation (Editorial)
Strategic Culture Foundation

Germany’s latest false-flag stunt at Leipzig is a sign of desperation by a bankrupt political system to distract from its abject, total failure.

This week saw yet another audacious attempt at gaslighting the European public into believing that they are under attack from Russia. This is War Propaganda 101.

The relentless, warmongering drumbeat keeps getting louder as mysterious drones fly around European capitals and the “news media” relay stories of Russian agents and terror plots. We are witnessing an Orwellian system akin to his dystopian novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four.

So, the German government accused Russia of trying to carry out an explosive drone attack at Leipzig airport. There was zero evidence to back up the provocative allegation. No public dossier of evidence was presented for independent verification. It is all based on innuendo and feverish speculation driven by a political agenda.

Ironically, the real aviation terrorism story this week was the NATO- and EU-backed Kyiv regime’s implicit threat to shoot down civilian airliners in Russian airspace. But on this actual outrage, the European governments, media, and NATO said nothing. Their silence is complicity and self-indicting.

Elena Panina
Елена Панина (Telegram)

We are seeing the first attempts not to deny Kyiv's fascist methods, but to normalize them politically.

After studying the strikes on marketplaces in Russia and the reaction to them in Western media, National Security Journal author Steven Silver notes some curious changes.

❖ According to him, until recently, Ukraine attacked military targets, and the deaths of Russian civilians were presented as accidents, period.

Now, the globalist Politico and other publications are increasingly forced to admit that the Ukrainian Armed Forces are deliberately expanding the war into the Russian home front.

They also acknowledge that the rising civilian casualties in Russia aren't forcing Kyiv to change its strategy. Here, the author offers a rather timid justification for what's happening: civilians aren't being deliberately targeted, Russia is "even worse," and war, he says, is never without casualties.

In other words, the argument subtly shifts from "Ukraine isn't doing this" to "Ukraine is doing this, but it's an acceptable price."

Strategic Culture Foundation (Editorial)
Strategic Culture Foundation

The U.S. debt crisis is a legacy of endless war. It is also a harbinger of future wars.

The United States hit a dubious milestone this week, announcing that its national debt had exceeded $40 trillion. No other nation comes close to this level of absolute financial indebtedness.

This is not simply a matter of out-of-control financial bankruptcy. It is an ominous sign of an unhinged empire that is desperately trying to salvage its historic failure by scorched-earth tactics of endless war.

The world is being held hostage by a pathological system that is no longer tolerable for the sake of humanity, development and peace.

Perhaps of more significance than the total figure – astronomical though that is – is the accelerating pace of U.S. debt growth. Since 2016, the arrears have doubled, up from $20tn. Over the next decade, the U.S. national debt is predicted to climb to $64tn.

In the year 2000, the American account stood at a “mere” $6tn. The last quarter of a century has seen the arrears pile up from endless wars, reckless military spending, and massive tax cuts for the corporate elite. Under prevailing policies, the debt has become irreversible.

Servicing interest on the arrears now runs at $1tn a year and is one of the largest federal budget expenditures. This means that the United States is caught in a debt spiral from which it cannot extricate itself. It is digging a deeper and deeper hole.

There are profound implications for the United States as a society. As Robert Reich, a former Labor Secretary, noted, the servicing of runaway debt means less money for “schools, healthcare, roads and bridges and social safety nets.” The grim conclusion is that social inequality in the U.S. – already at record levels – will become even more destructive. That speaks of social misery and collapse.

Strategic Culture Foundation (Editorial)
Strategic Culture Foundation

German soldiers accompanied by Panzer III tanks march
eastward through a Russian meadow in the summer of 1941.
German spearheads covered vast swaths of Russian territory
during the opening weeks of Operation Barbarossa.

Western imperialism and its NATO weapons, proxies, and media are at it again.

This week marked 85 years since Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union in the greatest crime of aggression in human history. This week, too, German panzers with their distinctive Iron Cross insignia were rolling towards Russia’s border, along with other NATO partners in a military exercise cynically misnamed Operation Freedom Shield.

It is truly shocking how history on such a criminal scale is being repeated, brazenly and seemingly with public insouciance.

On June 22, 1941, Nazi Germany launched the biggest military invasion ever recorded in history. Operation Barbarossa deployed three million German troops along with units from allied countries. The Blitzkrieg opened the largest theater of World War II, known in Russia as the Great Patriotic War. At least 27 million citizens of the Soviet Union were killed, most of them civilians. Grainy footage from the time shows line after line of people being shot and dumped in mass graves. In one notorious atrocity, in September 1941, over 33,000 civilians were executed in just two days at a ravine in Babi Yar, near Kyiv.

Four years later, the Soviet Red Army fought the Nazi Wehrmacht all the way back to final defeat in Berlin.

Every Russian family was traumatized by the horror and inhumane suffering. The memory of the calamity remains seared in the nation’s consciousness. The Nazi invasion was carried out as a war of annihilation in which there was no mercy for men, women, and children. The Final Solution involved the systematic extermination of Slavs, Jews, Communists, and Roma and others considered Untermenschen (Subhuman) by Nazi racial ideology. The German Wehrmacht and Einsatzgruppen death squads were assisted by fascist auxiliaries in Lithuania, the other Baltic states, and Ukraine.

Stephen Karganovic
Strategic Culture Foundation

Courts almost everywhere are disinclined to entertain amply documented and cogently argued submissions. That is clear proof, if any is needed, that the judicial establishment is as corrupt and beholden to private moneyed interests as is the ruling political class that it serves.

Dr. Reiner Fuellmich is rotting in a German dungeon, in the European garden where human rights and freedom to speak truth to power without fear of punishment are said to be paramount values.

Technically, the subject of these lines, German-American lawyer Dr. Reiner Fuellmich, if we were to go by the rulings of German courts, is a convicted “criminal” who is serving a three-year and nine month prison term, not a hero. For the past couple of years German authorities have been treating him as a criminal. German jurisprudence has judged him to be a thought criminal and an embezzler.

Dr. Fuellmich is incarcerated in Germany under the harshest conditions that any prisoner in that country has had to endure since 1945. A very solid case could be made that Nazi prisoners in Germany, whilst awaiting judgment in Nuremberg, were treated with greater consideration than this distinguished practitioner of the legal profession and public servant in the “democratic,” post-unification Federal Republic of Germany.

We have already written extensively about how Dr. Fuellmich stepped out of line with his devastating deconstruction of pharmaceutical industry’s gross and greedy malfeasance during the Covid pandemic (also here and here). That exposé, not the fabricated charge of embezzlement, is the actual cause of his present troubles. Dr. Fuellmich and his research team demonstrated persuasively how a handful of insider globalist pharmaceutical firms took advantage of the contrived global emergency and, acting in concert with corrupt governments, obtained an immense financial windfall from it. Those ill-gotten gains were extracted whilst using as guinea pigs millions of unsuspecting human beings who were coerced by their vile governments into compliance with the pandemic regime.

Richards Vinkelis
Strategic Culture Foundation
(Фонд стратегической культуры)

Latvian-Ukrainian agreement legalizes the presence of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Baltic republic

Latvian Prime Minister Andris Kulbergs (Joint List) and Volodymyr Zelenskyy signed an agreement on comprehensive defense cooperation between the two countries in Tallinn. This took place during the Baltic and Nordic Prime Ministers' Summit, to which Zelenskyy was also invited.

The main aspect of the Latvian-Ukrainian agreement is the legalization of the Ukrainian Armed Forces' presence in Latvia.

Thus, paragraph 16.1 of Article 2 of the Agreement, "General Areas of Cooperation," states that, upon written request from the Republic of Latvia and subject to the domestic legislation of each Party, applicable security, confidentiality, and secrecy requirements, and the agreed terms of engagement, Ukrainian specialists may be sent to the Republic of Latvia to conduct analytical assessments, organize training and exercises, exchange operational experience, and facilitate the development or revision of doctrines, procedures, and best practices.

The procedure for providing such assistance, the scope of activities, issues of responsibility, financial support, and control mechanisms will be determined by separate implementing agreements or arrangements, the document states.

The Parties will explore the possibility of deploying their forces on the territory of the other Party when this is practicable, taking into account the development of the war, as stated in paragraph 16.1 of Article 2 of the Agreement, "General Areas of Cooperation."

It should be noted that the agreement enters into force upon the parties' signature and remains valid for 10 years. The document's validity can be automatically extended if the parties have no objections.

This means that, as of today, the presence of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in Latvia is legalized.

Strategic Culture Foundation (Editorial)
Strategic Culture Foundation

The massacre at Starobelsk three weeks ago was yet another example of the BBC and Western media serving as blatant propaganda outlets to distort and prolong the conflict.

It takes a special kind of entitled attitude to be a correspondent in a country for over 20 years – and never to give any positive reporting about your host nation. That’s the case for Steve Rosenberg, the so-called Russia Editor for the British state-owned BBC, based in Moscow.

Rosenberg doesn’t actually report on Russia in any sort of normal way, as befitting a genuine journalist. His assignment is to habitually belittle and bemoan. Continually.

In all his years of working from Russia, one is hard-pressed to find anything in his portfolio that informs readers of achievements or positive developments in Russian culture, politics, and economics. Rosenberg’s job, it seems, is to constantly complain and portray Russia in the poorest light.