The Good Word

Mar 7, 2022 - Week 10

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Day 13 of the Russian invasion of Ukraine opens up civilian exit corridors amid

intense fighting, as Russia moves to take control of a third nuclear power plant

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Mar 6, the Haryana

government introduced

an anti-conversion bill

in the assembly,

triggering vociferous

opposition from the

Congress. The bill

prohibits religious

conversions effected by

misrepresentation,

force, undue influence,

coercion, allurement,

fraud or by marriage,

making it an offence.

Haryana Chief Minister

Manohar Lal Khattar,

pointed out that the bill

is not aimed at

discriminating against

any religion, saying

‘There is no mention of

any religion in the bill.

The purpose is to stop

forcible conversions.‘

If one’s religion is

concealed with the

intention of marrying

the guilty can be

punished with

imprisonment ranging

from three years to ten

years and liable to fine,

of not less than three

lac rupees. The Vishwa

Hindu Parishad has

welcomed the move.

At: NewsTimeExpress

Maha Shivratri, Mar 1 – image courtesy AwesomePixel

India abstains a 3rd

time on UN body

Ukraine resolution

Mar 03, India abstained

from voting on the 193-

member UN General

Assembly (UNGA)

special session

resolution aimed to

deplore Russia's

aggression against

Ukraine. It is India’s

third abstention in less

than a week on a UN

body resolution

regarding the Russia-

Ukraine conflict. At the

UNGA session, 141

members voted in the

favour of the resolution

while 5 opposed it. India

was among 35 nations

that abstained.

Previously India had

abstained from voting

on two UN Security

Council (UNSC)

resolutions, one to

condemn Russia’s attack

and a second to call a

special UNGA session to

deliberate it. Russia had

vetoed the first UNSC

resolution. Unlike UNSC,

UNGA resolutions are

not legally binding but

considered indicative of

world opinion. IndiaTVNews

At: Inews, Republic

Mar 5, China on

Saturday hiked its annual

defence budget by 7.1

per cent to $230 billion

from last year's $209

billion, three times that

of India’s military

spending.

Its defence budget

doesn't factor in the

expenditure of much of

its rapid modernisation

of the navy, including

the building of new

aircraft carriers, air force

and missile systems.

Besides the defence

budget, China has a

separate internal

security budget which

often surpasses the

defence spending. China

continues to be the

largest standing army

despite downsizing its

troops to two million

from the earlier 2.3

million in 2017. It is the

second-biggest spender

on defence after the US

whose defence budget

was over $600 billion.

The hike comes amidst

the Russia-Ukraine

conflict and growing

Indo-Pacific tensions.

At: OutlookIndia

China ups its

defense budget

7% to $230 billion

Mar 6, Speaking to

reporters after leaving the

police station on Saturday

night, Union Minister

Narayan Rane claimed that

after the deaths of Disha

Salian and actor Sushant

Singh Rajput, Maharashtra

Chief Minister (CM)

Uddhav Thackeray called

him twice to request him

not to talk about Salian's

death.

A court on Friday had

granted interim protection

to Rane and his son from

arrest till Mar 10, the date

of its next hearing.

According to the FIR

registered by Malvani

police, Rane made certain

objectionable remarks

about Disha Salian's death

at a press conference on

Feb 19 where his son was

also present.

Salian allegedly committed

suicide by jumping off a

high-rise in suburban

Malad on June 8, 2020, six

days before actor Rajput

(34) was found hanging at

his apartment in suburban

Bandra. No comments

were available immediately

from the CM’s office.

At: NewIndianExpress

Haryana becomes

11th state to moot

anti-conversion bill

Russia announced a

ceasefire and opened

six humanitarian

corridors to allow

passage to civilians

from Kyiv, Mariupol,

Kharkiv and Sumy. Two

routes were designed to

move civilians to other

parts of Ukraine. The

other four would funnel

them into Russia or

Belarus. Ukraine called

it unacceptable and

‘completely immoral’.

Its foreign ministry

accused Russia of

continuing to fire

missiles after the

ceasefire began. In

turn, the Russian

military says Ukrainian

nationalists are

preventing civilians and

foreign citizens from

leaving ‘under the

threat of physical

violence’. More than 1.7

million Ukrainians have

left the country.

Three rounds of talks

between Ukraine and

Russia have been held

between Feb 28 and

Mar 7. The third round

discussed establishing

these humanitarian

corridors.

Three days earlier

President Putin had the

reasons for the conflict.

He said the situation in

Ukraine had spiraled

Mar 8, as the Russian

invasion of Ukraine

enters day 13, its troops

have advanced to

occupy regions along the

Russian and Belarusian

border of Ukraine to the

north and east and have

attempted to block

Ukraine’s access to the

Black Sea in the south.

Russian supply lines are

being tested as its

troops lay siege on key

cities. The advance is

slow in the face of

intense Ukrainian

resistance. The Russians

are battling to keep

control on occupied

territory.

The Navy successfully tests destroyer

launched long-range BrahMos missile

Mar 6, the Indian navy successfully tested the long-range precision strike

capability of an advanced version of the BrahMos supersonic cruise missile.

Fired from atop a naval destroyer the missile hit its target with pinpoint

accuracy demonstrating combat and mission readiness for frontline platforms.

The Navy tweeted, ‘Yet another shot in the arm for Aatmanirbhar Bharat,’

The missile has been tested under different situations. A few weeks earlier it

was test-fired from a land-based launcher by the Andaman and Nicobar

Command. Last December the air-launched version was successfully test-fired

from a Su-30MKI fighter jet, clearing it for serial production.At: HinduGujrati

Mar 7, a special PMLA

court in Mumbai

remanded Maharashtra

Cabinet Minister Nawab

Malik to judicial custody

till 21st March, in the

money laundering

registered against him

by the Enforcement

Directorate (ED). The ED

had arrested Malik on

Feb 23rd because he had

allegedly purchased a 3

acre property in the

Goawala Compound,

Kurla valued presently at

about ₹300 crore, at a

price far lower than its

market value from

fugitive terrorist

Dawood Ibrahim’s aides.

Justice RN Rokde

observed that prima

facie ED’s allegations

were well-founded and

granted ED time to

investigate the wrong

doings over the past 20

years.

The ED has located a

second property

currently valued at ₹200

crore at Bandra-Kurla

that it alleges Malik had

usurped. The ED’s

remand application

states that no valid

documents of sale were

found and Malik

usurped the property by

threatening its owners.

When the victim

protested, he was

abducted and

threatened.

At: OpIndia, HindustanTimes, Pgurus

Ansari’s son

booked for threats

to UP officers

Mar 4, the Mau police

lodged an FIR against

gangster-turned-politician

Mukhtar Ansari’s 29-year-

old son Abbas Ansari, who

is contesting the

Assembly election from

Mau, for criminal

intimidation of officials.

The FIR also names along

with his younger brother

Umar Abbas Ansari and

150 unknown persons.

In a video being widely

shared on social media,

Abbas is heard saying, ‘I

have taken assurance

from Samajwadi Party

chief Akhilesh Yadav that

there will be no transfer

posting till six months.

Those posted here will

remain here. Hisab kitab

(Settlements) will be done

first and only then their

transfer certificates will

be stamped.’ Mukhtar

Ansari, who won from the

Mau assembly seat five

times, is currently lodged

at the Banda district jail.

The Election Commission

has also banned him from

campaigning prior to the

seven phase of the UP

polls.

At: IndianExpress, HindustanTimes

Court sends Nawab Malik to 14 days

judicial custody; other deals exposed

‘out of control’ following

the Feb 2014 coup that

had ousted the pro-Russia,

democratically elected

Ukrainian president, Viktor

Yanukovych. It was

unconstitutional and

orchestrated by the West.

‘They aren’t hiding this,

and openly said they’d

spent $5 billion on it,’ he

asserted. NATO’s refusal

to guarantee that it will

not admit Ukraine as a

member, even as it

vigorously supplies the

country arms, has

exacerbated the conflict.

Putin claims the Russian

assault is to ‘demilitarize

and denazify’ Ukraine.

The miles-long Russian

armoured convoy outside

Kyiv has been not

advanced much in the last

six days. Russian forces

have now seized two

Ukrainian nuclear power

plants and are advancing

toward a third, Ukraine’s

president Zelenksy has

claimed. Friday, Russia

seized control of Europe's

largest nuclear power

plant, Zaporizhzhia, that

generates 5,700 MW of

energy. The second plant

under Russian control is

Chernobyl, which is not

active but is still staffed

and maintained. The third

plant currently under

threat is Yuzhnoukrainsk.

Zelensky uploaded a video

on Instagram, filmed in his

office, to refute Russian

media claims that he had

fled to Poland.

At: MSN, RT-1-2-3, Republic, SkyNews,

Wikipedia, NBCNewYork, Republic

Map: SkyNews,

in Ukraine’s Lvov,

Kharkiv and Poltava

were working with

dangerous pathogens

such as plague, anthrax

and brucellosis, as part

of the US-led military

biological programme.

Showing documentary

proof, the Russians

accused the US of trying

destroy evidence lest it

fall into Russian hands.

Putin has ordered the

destruction of these bio-

labs.

Russian forces also

destroyed an atomic

physics lab in Ukraine’s

second largest city,

Kharkiv, built with the

US. No increased

radiation was detected.

At: BBC, Ummid, Truth11, SCMP

Image: YouTube

Mar 4, Prime Minister NarendraModi started his roadshow here on Friday

afternoon, drumming up support for BJP candidates ahead of the last phase

of the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections on March 7. The crowd chanted

"Jai Shri Ram" and "Har Har Mahadev", and showered rose petals as the

convoy covered a distance of a little over three kilometers. At OutlookIndia

NATO rejects no-fly zone demand;

Russia destroys atomic, bio-labs

Mar 6, Ukraine's

president has attacked

NATO leaders over their

refusal to implement a

no-fly zone around his

country. In a fiery

speech, Volodymyr

Zelensky said, ‘All the

people who die, starting

from this day will also

die because of you.

Because of your

weakness and disunity,’.

NATO argued that

creating a no-fly zone

will result in direct

confrontation with

Moscow, a redline it

does not want to cross

for the fear of triggering

a nuclear war.

Monday, Russian Armed

Forces claimed that 30

US-funded laboratories

PM Modi holds mega roadshow in

Varanasi ahead of last phase of polls

Rane: CM asked me

not to speak about

Disha Salian death

Zaporizhzhianuclear power plant

Ukrainian anti-aircraft missile approaches Russian MI-34 chopper

troops in Estonia, Poland

and Romania, the stage was

set inexorably for Russian

military intervention.

Behind this broad picture, of

course, lie differences

between contending parties

on facts, history,

interpretations of

agreements and

responsibility for the course

of recent events.

The failure of the West to

establish a coherent security

architecture in Europe after

the dissolution of the Soviet

Union, the complete

internal disarray in Russia

with the looting of its state

assets by newly-minted

oligarchs, even Russian eff-

orts to be included in NATO

to change its very nature, is

responsible for what is

currently happening. The

West chose to take full

advantage of Russia’s

weakness to revitalise and

steadily expand NATO

eastwards despite the

promise not to extend it

beyond East Germany

after German reunification,

isolate Russia from Europe

in tandem with the

eastwards expansion of EU

too, with Ukraine’s entry

into NATO and EU as the

coup de grâce against

Russian security.

The argument that all

sovereign countries should

have the choice to enter

into alliances as they will is

not an honest one. It is

couched in principle but

behind it lies predatory

geopolitics. The West is well

aware of Russia’s concerns

and knows the potential

dangers of keeping the

doors open to Ukraine’s

membership, but it has

gambled on the Russian

sense of its weakness. The

other argument that

Ukraine’s NATO

membership is not on the

agenda for now is

precisely the one that Putin

rejects and wants a formal

legal agreement so that the

membership does not come

to pass in unforeseen

circumstances in the future.

The third argument that

Russia seeks to create

spheres of influence is

absurd, when the

extension of NATO and

EU does that precisely in

Europe.

Russia is concerned that

even without NATO

membership, US-NATO

can entrench themselves

on the ground by arming

Ukraine, giving it

threatening capabilities

and establishing

permanent military

outposts and missions,

which would make a

military intervention by

Russia even more

difficult in the future, if

needed. Russia is right in

claiming that with the

West in Ukraine it will

become defenseless.

The parallel Putin makes

with Russian missiles

placed in Mexico or

Canada being totally

unacceptable to the US

is valid. He has unde-

rlined that it is not

Russia that is moving its

forces to the borders of

the US, it is the US that

is doing so.

Russia’s invasion of

Ukraine has invited

draconian sanctions, as

threatened publicly by

President Biden, in

which Europe has joined.

President Putin himself

as well as Foreign

Minister Lavrov have

been sanctioned, as

have all the members of

Russia’s National

Security Council. Top

Russian businessmen

and major financial inst-

itutions, even the

Central Bank, have been

subjected to financial or

travel sanctions, with

major Russian banks

excluded from the global

Swift banking system.

Russian TV channel RT

and media agency

Sputnik News have been

banned by the EU, which

has also sanctioned 351

Russian MPs who voted

in favour of the military

intervention in Ukraine.

This shows that

possessing formidable

nuclear power provides

no protection if the

West bands together

against a country. Russia

is treated as if it is a

nuclear-aspirant Iran.

Sanctioning the head of

state of a permanent

member of the UN

Security Council shows

how this instrument is

being wielded with

impunity by the West. It

is not clear how this

conforms with any

definition of international

norms, the rule of law or

a rules-based order that

the West constantly

underlines.

The banning of RT and

Sputnik News exposes

the hypocrisy of the West

on the issue of press

freedom and freedom of

expression. To claim

these two Russian media

outlets are purveying

state propaganda or fake

news will be judged as

absurd by those who

watch RT, which is a

serious channel. The

reality is that the West is

determined to control

the narrative on issues of

interest to them and not

allow an alternative

narrative to take hold.

Shielding their own

from being influenced by

RT shows a sense of

insecurity. How state-

controlled information is

worse than the free press

in the West, which spews

venom against Putin and

Russia and conditions

public thinking about

them, is debatable. The

propaganda against India

by the New York Times,

the Washington Post, the

Economist and so on

shows that a free press is

no guarantee of objective

information. The way

India is rapped by the

West for temporary rest-

rictions on Internet

access to avoid violence

or control terrorism

contrasts with EU’s ban

on Russian media. The

Ukrainian crisis exposed

how our own press is

incapable of reporting

responsibly on

international affairs. It is

treating the Russian

assault on Ukraine as a

quasi-assault on India,

with an outpouring of

sympathy for Ukraine

and castigation of Russia

as the aggressor,

ignoring the complex

causes of the conflict

and the need for

balanced and factual

reporting, with due

consideration of not

being entirely out of line

with the country’s

foreign policy interests

in search of TRPs.

India has rightly

abstained in the UNSC

and in the UNGA on the

West-sponsored

resolutions. While it is a

fact that Ukraine’s

sovereignty and

territorial integrity have

been violated, the issue

is more complex. The US

and Europe have

themselves done this in

Europe itself by breaking

up Yugoslavia and

regime changes in West

Asia. The effort should

be to contain the

conflict, secure a

ceasefire and push for

negotiations. The

Ukraine issue will figure

several times in the

UNSC as the face-off

between Russia and the

West will be prolonged.

How many times will

India vote against Russia,

as the West wants,

without destroying our

ties with Russia?

Tomorrow, the West can

let India down if it suits

its interests. Our ties

with the US are very

important but if they

hinge on the position we

take on Ukraine based

on our national interest,

they will remain fragile.

A veritable strategic

partnership should be

based on respecting the

legitimate interests of

each side and give room

for differences where

core interests are not in

conflict. Our abstentions

do not harm the US.

Besides, the US and the

West do not take sides

on our territorial issues

involving China and

Pakistan and continue to

‘sit on the fence’ even

today.

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Republics of South

Ossetia and Abkhazia,

which triggered a

Russian military

intervention and the

eventual recognition of

their independence by

Russia. Interestingly,

Saakashvili, a Georgian,

was appointed

governor of Odessa by

the Ukrainian

government, which

indicates the foreign

influences at work in

Ukraine.

Today, the same

scenario has been

repeated in Ukraine,

with Russian military

intervention and

recognition of the

independence of the

Luhansk and Donetsk

People’s Republics. The

Minsk agreements

brokered by France and

Germany in 2014/15

under the Normandy

format to allow

constitutionally

protected autonomy to

these regions, with a

clause that Ukraine’s

NATO membership will

require their consent

too, have remained

unimplemented despite

considerable efforts.

Failing this, after seven

years, Russia

emphatically demanded

a written, legally-

binding agreement with

the US barring Ukraine’s

NATO membership,

removal of NATO troops

and strike weapons

from areas close to the

Russian border etc.

While the US showed

readiness to discuss

issues of strategic

stability in Europe, it

has rejected, and NATO

as well, the demand to

bar Ukraine from

becoming a member of

the US-led security bloc,

insisting that NATO’s

open-door policy for

membership will

continue. With US-

NATO-UK arming

Ukraine, sending in

military trainers,

challenging Russia in

the Black Sea,

positioning NATO

This is one part of

the doctrine of

Karma-Yoga —

activity, the duty of

the householder.

There is a passage

later on, where it

says that "if the

householder dies in

battle, fighting for

his country or his

religion, he comes to

the same goal as the

Yogi by meditation,"

showing thereby

that what is duty for

one is not duty for

another. At the same

time, it does not say

that this duty is

lowering and the

other elevating. Each

duty has its own

place, and according

to the circumstances

in which we are

placed, we must

perform our duties.

One idea comes out

of all this — the

condemnation of all

weakness. This is a

particular idea in all

our teachings which I

like, either in

philosophy, or in

religion, or in work.

If you read the

Vedas, you will find

this word always

repeated —

fearlessness — fear

nothing. Fear is a

sign of weakness. A

man must go about

his duties without

taking notice of the

sneers and the

ridicule of the world.

If a man retires from

the world to worship

God, he must not

think that those who

live in the world and

work for the good of

the world are not

worshipping God:

neither must those

who live in the

world, for wife and

children, think that

those who give up

the world are low

vagabonds. Each is

great in his own

place. This thought I

will illustrate by a

story.

Swami Vivekananda

Karma Yoga

a series of extracts

Swami Vivekananda Image courtesy Newsgram.com;

the legitimately-elected

government of

President Yanukovych

over the issue of

Ukraine accepting the

EU offer of an

Association Agreement

(favoured by the

protestors) and Russia’s

counter-offer of joining

the Eurasian Economic

Union instead (favoured

by the President).

Meanwhile, over the

head of strong Russian

protests, Ukraine (and

Georgia as well) were

offered NATO

membership by the

West in 2008. This has

proved a ticking time-

bomb and is the

backdrop of subsequent

developments. In 2014,

Russia annexed

Crimea—which was

transferred to Ukraine

in 1954 by Khrushchev,

himself a Ukrainian, as

part of an internal re-

arrangement. Again in

2014, Donetsk and

Luhansk in the Donbass

region of eastern

Ukraine also declared

independence, leading

to armed clashes

between Russian-

speaking militias backed

by Moscow and the

Ukrainian military, with

destruction of

infrastructure and heavy

loss of civilian lives.

It is important to keep

in mind that NATO has

expanded four times

since the demise of the

Soviet Union, drawing

relentlessly closer to the

Russian borders. While

Russia has tolerated the

NATO membership of

Baltic states and the

erstwhile Warsaw Pact

countries, it has

vigorously opposed

NATO membership of

any of the former

constituents of the

Soviet Union. This

Russian redline was

tested by Georgia when

in 2008, encouraged by

US lobbies, the then

President Saakashvili,

sought to exert control

over the separatist

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Author – Kanwal Sibal

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Mar 4, the West is well

aware of Russia’s concerns

and knows the potential

dangers of keeping the

NATO’s doors open to

Ukraine’s membership,

but it has gambled on the

Russian sense of its

weakness.

At a simplistic level, Russia

can be criticised for

militarily intervening in

Ukraine and violating its

sovereignty and territorial

integrity. But this does not

take into account the train

of events that led to this

crisis. A broader

perspective will enable a

more objective view. The

Ukraine issue has been

simmering since the

dissolution of the Soviet

Union. President Putin is

right when he

characterised it as the

biggest geopolitical

disaster of the 20th

century. A superpower

armed with a formidable

nuclear capability

collapsed from within. The

separation of Ukraine—

the historical core of the

Slavic Russian state and its

Orthodox character—has

been traumatic for Russia.

Tensions between Russia

and Ukraine have been a

reality over internal

political conflicts within

Ukraine, Russian oil

supplies and pricing,

ethnic, linguistic and

religious differences

between the western and

eastern parts of the

country, extremist right-

wing Russia-hating

nationalist elements in

western Ukraine

incorporated into the

Soviet Union by Stalin,

treatment of Russian-

speaking ethnic minorities

in eastern Ukraine, the

push inside Ukraine to join

the European Union

and NATO, and so on.

These came to a head in

2014 when street protests

supported by the US in

particular, as part of its

agenda to promote colour

revolutions, overthrew

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To Be Or NATO Be: Putin’s War On Ukraine Is Also A Western Creation

The reality is that the

West is determined

to control the

narrative on issues of

interest to them and

not allow an

alternative narrative

to take hold

Ukrainian anti-aircraft missile strikes Russian MI-34 chopper

Russia’s Great

Depression

Throughout Yeltsin

years, the experts from

the US kept destroying

Russia’s economy. To

give a sense of the

insanity, the

“liberalization”

programs administered

by the US experts

caused hyperinflation

for 4 long years,

sometimes of up to

50% per month (or

more than 2000% per

year).

Under the guidance of

U.S., thousands of

Russian factories were

simply shut down. Even

Russia’s oil/gas

production fell by half,

compared to the USSR

period. Russia’s PPP

GDP fell by 40% during

Yeltsin years and the

economic crisis was

worse than America’s

Great Depression of the

1930s.

To solve this fake

economic crisis,

America’s vulture

capitalists prescribed

more illogical and cruel

advice: slash

government spending,

layoff more workers

and raise taxes. This

neoliberal “solution”

predictably lead to only

more misery for most

Russians.

In the 1990s, often,

40% of Russian workers

didn’t get paid for

months or not at all,

and close to 1/3rd of

Russians were making

under $4 a day. There

were 2 million Russian

children who essentially

became orphans;

suicide rates among

men skyrocketed and

life expectancy of men

fell to 58. Between

1991 and 1999, Russia’s

population decreased

by 8 million.

What no communist

could achieve the

brightest minds of Wall

Street had

accomplished. In 1998,

Russia defaulted on its

debt, bank interest

rates hit 120%, and the

stock market collapsed.

(The default itself was

bogus because the

amount was only about

$40 billion, which is

nothing compared to

the trillions of dollars of

natural resources that

Russia has). Then to

“protect” the value of

Ruble, Wall Street

advisers forced Russia

to sell off all its foreign

exchange and gold

reserves. When all the

reserves were gone the

Ruble still fell 80%.

Destroying Russia’s

Military Without

Waging a War

It was not just the

economy that the

globalists wanted to

destroy — the Russian

military was

systematically

dismantled. Russian

fighter jets and tanks

couldn’t operate

because of lack of fuel;

radars couldn’t operate

because there was no

electricity; and Russian

soldiers were driving

taxis or begging on the

streets of Moscow.

Then as a blow to the

national pride, Russia lost

the war against Islamic

terrorists in Chechnya.

What’s not widely

understood is that these

terrorist groups were

replicas of Mujahideen

from Afghanistan. And,

yes, these people were

still using Saudi Arabia’s

funds and CIA’s weapons

and training. Thus, while

the US economists were

destroying the Russian

economy, the US foreign

policy establishment was

working on breaking up

Russia geographically.

Then there was the

betrayal regarding NATO.

In 1990, the US made an

‘iron-clad guarantee’ that

NATO would not expand

‘an inch forward’ if the

USSR was dissolved. By

1996, the US started

proposing NATO

expansion. In 1999,

Poland, Czech Republic

and Hungary were

absorbed into NATO. Few

months later, NATO

bombed Serbia/

Yugoslavia 1999, Serbia

was Russia’s staunch ally.

Basically, the

international bankers set

up on Russia like vultures

attacking a wounded

bear. Their goal was to

destroy Russia’s

economy, society,

military and the

geographical statehood

itself. If these money-

masters hadn’t been

stopped, Russia would

have disintegrated into

numerous dysfunctional

and powerless regions.

Enter Putin

The bleak 1998 was also

the year when Vladimir

Putin became the head

of FSB – Russia’s

intelligence agency.

Next year, he was

handpicked by Boris

Yeltsin to become the

Prime Minister of

Russia. Few months

later, on Dec 31, 1999,

Yeltsin resigned abruptly

and made Putin the

acting President.

Putin had seen what

happened when you

trusted the reputable

economists, banksters

and vulture capitalists of

the West. He fought the

traitorous Russian

oligarchs and

sent them to prisons,

one by one. The lucky

ones fled the country:

Boris Berzovsky to

England; Vladimir

Gusinsky to Greece;

Yegor Gaidar to Ireland;

Mikhail Khodorkovsky to

Switzerland and so on.

Then slowly but steadily

Putin changed

everything around (see

image). So, that’s why

Russia distrusts the

West, and why Putin is

popular in Russia

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Of course, the reason

the US wanted Yeltsin

was he was an idiot and

an alcoholic, and most

of his cabinet was filled

with US puppets.

Bill Clinton’s

conversation with Tony

Blair that show how the

U.S. controlled the

Russian parliament and

could choose the Prime

Minister. Clinton said,

“The first thing we

have to do is get

Chernomyrdin

confirmed [as Russia’s

Prime Minister]. I will

see what I can do over

there and work like hell

to influence the Russian

parliament!”

Yeltsin — America’s

Useful Idiot

Oh, in his first term,

after the disastrous

economic “reforms,”

Yeltsin was impeached

by the Russian

parliament and

removed from the

office. As a response, he

brought in the military

and attacked the

parliament building

with tanks! What was

the response from the

western media?

Nothing but praise!

That’s how the US

spreads democracy.

Then, in 1996, when

Yeltsin was running for

reelection, Bill Clinton

arranged for a quick $10

billion loan from the

IMF and then also

visited Moscow just

before the election to

give Yeltsin a big boost.

Swami Vivekananda Image courtesy Newsgram.com;

Larry Summers (the

future Treasury

Secretary of the US),

Jeffrey Sachs, David

Lipton etc. – that

destroyed the economy

through crony

capitalism,

hyperinflation, debt

trap and austerity.

Crony capitalism’s

strategy was to divvy

up Russia’s vast natural

resources and state

corporations among a

handful of oligarchs

who, in turn, sold a

chunk of the ownership

to western elites for

pennies on the dollar

(think of it as a

commission).

USA Controlled

Russian Politics

The US controlled

Russia’s politics as well.

Russia’s leadership,

including the two-term

President, Boris Yeltsin,

was handpicked by

America’s elites.

The image shows

headlines from U.S.

media that boast how

the U.S. rigged the

elections and helped

Yeltsin win the

Presidency. The cover

of the Time magazine

from 1996 proudly

bragged, “Yanks to the

Rescue“! Inside, an

article titled “Rescuing

Boris [Yeltsin]” went

into the details of how

American advisers,

campaign managers

and pollsters helped

Yeltsin win the Russian

presidential election.

Author – Chris Kanthan

Source – World Affairs

published first in 2017

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In 1992, after the fall of

the Soviet Union, entire

Russia was put in the

hands of Wall Street and

the IMF. After all,

communism had failed

and it was time to

embrace capitalism!

These experts were

supposed to create

miracles using principles

of free market and

privatization that would

make everyone

prosperous.

Economic Terrorism

In reality, Privatization

became Piratization. It

was just the like the

shock doctrine that

Milton Friedman and his

Chicago Boys inflicted on

Chile in the 1970s. A

slightly different version

of the same playbook

has been used on Greece

since 2009.

In 1992, the first year of

“reform” introduced by

globalists, Russia’s

inflation skyrocketed to

2500%. This had a

double-whammy effect.

One, the price of food

and other things went up

25 times! Second,

savings of pensioners

were wiped out. If

someone had 100,000

Rubles saved up, it

turned into about 4,000

Rubles.

The people in charge of

this economic terrorism

was the Harvard Mafia –

Why the US-Russia Relationship went sour after the 1990s Anonymous man

gifts 60 kg gold to

Kashi temple

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France upholds

ban on hijab in

court

Mar, 2, an anonymous

donor from south India

has donated 60 kg of

gold to Uttar Pradesh's

Kashi Vishwanath

Temple. Of this 37 kg,

equal to the weight of

PM Narendra Modi’s

mother Hiraben, has

been used to plate the

inner walls of the

sanctum sanctorum.

The remaining 23kg

gold will be used to

cover the lower

portion of the golden

dome of the main

structure. The gold

plating on the walls

was first seen by the

public when Modi

offered prayers here

during his visit to his

Lok Sabha constituency

last Sunday. The BJP

government had

arranged to get the

temple renovated last

year. In the 18th

century too, the

temple had received a

ton of gold from

Maharaja Ranjit Singh

of Punjab.NewIndianExpress

Mar 2, France's highest

court upheld a ban on

barristers wearing the

hijab and other

religious symbols in

courtrooms, in the

north, in a ruling that

sets a precedent for

the rest of the country.

The court's decision

may stir a nationwide

debate over so-called

core Republican values

of secularism and

identity ahead of

April's presidential

election.

The case was brought

by Sarah Asmeta, a 30

year old hijab-wearing

French-Syrian lawyer,

who had challenged a

rule set by the Bar

Council of Lille, north

France, banning

religious and political

markers in courtrooms

on the grounds that it

was targeted and

discriminatory. The

Court said the ban was

‘necessary and

appropriate’. Banning

the wearing of

religious symbols ‘does

not constitute

discrimination,’ it held.

Asmeta had lost the

case in an appeals

court in 2020 before

coming to the Court of

Cassation. At: USNews