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“When you get billions in aid and your weapons resupplied and your ammunition stock resupplied, you don’t learn the lesson that war is bad and nobody wins.”~King Abdullah II
By Catherine Austin Fitts
This week on the Solari Report, Saker joins me for our quarterly review of the geopolitical landscape. Items on our list to cover:
- The Russian and European response to the latest US sanctions;
- Western reactions to the upcoming Zapad 2017 military exercise:
- Trump’s Afghanistan announcement:
- The “consulate wars” between the USA and Russia;
- Is freedom of speech in danger in the USA? (see Saker’s latest analysis)
- Syria Update – what does the integrated Russian-Syrian air defense network mean?
- Syria Update – why the Russian plan appears to be working;
- Iraq Update – discussion of the Iraqi PMU model report (with plug by Saker to SouthFront); and
- North Korea fires a missile over Hokkaido – and says it has a missile ready bomb – what does that mean?
In Let’s Go to the Movies, I will review Oliver Stone’s Putin Interviews – four hours of interviews with Vladimir Putin conducted by Stone between 2015 and 2017.
In Money & Markets this week I will discuss the latest in financial and geopolitical news. Please make sure to e-mail or post your questions for Ask Catherine.
Talk to you Thursday!
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As usual, a great, insightful discussion, amazing commentary by The Saker.
It would be interesting to have an interview with The Saker about his insight into the Soviet war in Afghanistan. Afghanistan has long ago became known as “the graveyard of empires”; since accent times, it has withstood invasions by virtually every major world power from Alexander the Great and Genghis Khan to the British empire and the Soviet Union, and now, the US. “Such endeavors usually begin with confidence and end with catastrophe” – – quote from the book “Into the Land of Bones” by Frank L. Holt. The name speaks for itself. I am not finished reading it yet but II highly recommend it, for history needs to quit repeating itself!
Another book that I wanted to mention that I think could be of interest is “Zinky Boys: Soviet Voices from the Afghanistan War” by Svetlana Alexievich. (The book was originally released in 1992 and this is the edition I read; it appears that it has been re-published in 2017 under the name “Boys in Zinc” – possibly just a better translation version. I must warn it is a heavy read. The book is written by an investigative journalist who was born in the Soviet Union and lived in exile in Western Europe for prolonged periods of time during her life. To the best of my knowledge, this book is very unique and one of the very few sources (with English translation) that offers a raw, unreducted perspective as experienced by the ordinary Russian families and young teenage boys drafted unwillingly and sent to fight in this war.
Svetlana Alexievich other works are worth checking out; she has won 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature “for her polyphonic writing, a monument to suffering and courage in our time.”
The other books by this author are worth
Will check Alexievich out. I am waiting for Saker’s new book.
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