Putin Orders Retaliatory Seizures By Russian Navy Of EU Ships; Orekhov Crisis Kiev Brigade Trapped

Putin Shadow Fleet Red Line, Frees ex-US Marine as Air Force One Switcheroo Unravels

Yen Is Sinking Again. Oil Reserves Near Empty w/ Ray Zucaro

The Duran: Episode 961
France's Marine Le Pen Acquitted in Case Over Violating Hate Speech Laws
https://sputniknews.com/europe/202105041082797685-frances-marine-le-pen-acquitted-in-case-over-violating-hate-speech-laws/

It seems to me that we are now in a long term standoff in the Persian Gulf with the Iranians keeping the Strait of Hormuz closed they say until the US makes concessions which I cannot imagine it will ever make. Whilst this is debilitating for the global economy, from an Iranian point of view this strategy carries risks and as I have discussed in various programmes Alex and I have done together, I am far from sure that long term it is the right approach. for Iran to take. Strengthening relations with the key BRICS states, ie. China and Russia, makes better sense to me.

The key point however is that it is unlikely that the Strait of Hormuz is going to reopen any time soon, and this is intensifying the steadily growing energy crisis, especially in Europe. With gas reserves at very low levels and uncertain supplies of oil and gas, Europe on top of all its many other problems must now look forward to a very hard winter.

Meanwhile with every day that passes Ukraine is getting more and ...

US Shell Factory Exposed: Why US For-Profit Industry Can't Compete with Russian/Chinese Production

The US had set the target of manufacturing 100,000 155mm artillery shells every month by the end of 2025.

Instead, it has failed to reach even half this target.

This is in part due to an entire General Dynamics factory that failed to make a single usable shell component in 2 years and after receiving hundreds of millions of dollars to do so.

Far from just an issue with artillery shells, US military industrial production is being held back by systemic flaws rooted in the for-profit nature of the US government and economy itself - siphoning off billions (if not trillions) of tax dollars and not only returning nothing of value for the American public - but diverting funding abroad on wars of aggression at the expense of funding healthcare, education, and infrastructure at home.

This reveals US for-profit industry as the very threat in reality to the American people, industry and...

https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/encore-at-the-cirque-du-hormuz-the