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Russia considers 'energy war' in response to incitement to war and EU-US sanctions
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov has announced the proclamation and introduction of counter-sanctions against the European Union for the coming days. According to observers, Russia is also no longer shying away from an energy war against the EU.
Multiple Russian media reported yesterday that the Russian government would have worked out firm counter-sanctions against the US and the EU and would introduce them in the coming days.
Most experts and observers reckon that measures that will hit the European energy market hard are also planned. A normally well-informed journalist writes citing the Russian Foreign Ministry on Telegram:
"Russian Foreign Ministry: Russia is ready for a hard confrontation with the EU in the energy sector, if necessary.
This is a warning of our readiness to start a global economic war if need be.
A blockade of energy supplies would devastate the European Union. Entire industries would be shut down and millions of people would lose their jobs.
Sympathy for the ´unbelievable Ukrainians´ will dissolve into air and domestic instability will bring down the political system of entire countries. In some countries fascists (in the original sense of the political term) will come to power, in others civil war and domestic terror will break out.
In this situation, Russia will stop at nothing to supply weapons to insurgents from Vilnius to Madrid. By the way, who says that the Basques are not already learning the tactics of deploying MANPADS and Javelin armor defense systems?
The global south will be ravaged by a famine, and Russia will be the only country able to feed the hungry. These armies of hungry people can be turned into new waves of refugees, or they can be armed to drive out the former white colonialists throughout Eurasia and Africa."
Sanctions war and economic war "inevitable"
Also yesterday, Russian Federation Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov announced the personal sanctions lists against Western politicians, businessmen and other prominent figures for the coming days. Ryabkov said on Russian television:
"The lists are ready. We are working on them. This is largely our daily work. To fixate on how and to what extent to respond to sanctions is probably wrong."
The top diplomat announced that Russian action in the sanctions war will be "cold-blooded."
He estimated the impact of Western sanctions as "manageable." The sanctions war and economic war would have been inevitable and would in no way depend on Russian action. Ryabkov literally:
"We knew and know that at any moment we have to reckon with an anger from the Americans. We prepared for this situation, which we are now experiencing. The sanctions would have been there even without the military operation. That has nothing to do with each other. If there had been no special operation, if the situation around the Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics had been at least relatively normalized, I think Washington and its deputies would still have found a pretext to introduce all that (the sanctions)."
A relationship of trust between Russia and the US could no longer exist. One would have counted at the State Department: the number of waves of sanctions by the US against Russia would have long exceeded 100.
https://unser-mitteleuropa.com..../russland-erwaegt-en
Wob documents provide disconcerting insight into Orwellian corona approach: critical MPs spied on
During the 'pandemic', the government has used techniques to suspect and silence critical journalists and citizens. This is apparent from revealed Wob documents about the corona approach that have been studied by data investigators Marc van der Vegt, Cees and Wouter Aukema.
The Wob research provides an insight into the dangerous relationship between the press and the state, writes data analyst Daniël van der Tuin on Substack . The documents show that the National Coordinator for Security and Counterterrorism (NCTV) continuously passes on information about journalists, politicians and influencers to the Ministry of Health.
The NCTV made so-called environmental analyses, in which the impact of critical influencers and politicians is monitored. Van der Tuin mentions the names of Maurice de Hond, Hans van Tellingen, Member of Parliament Fleur Agema and BBB foreman Caroline van der Plas.
trolls
The Wob documents reveal that the government is cracking down on critical journalists and citizens by discrediting them or undermining their views. On social media, this mainly happens through the use of fake profiles, so-called trolls, Van der Tuin knows.
The government also appears to be putting pressure on tech companies to suppress critical voices. “It is explicitly stated that critical voices about NATO and the EU must be nipped in the bud,” writes Van der Tuin.
“Citizens' criticism of the policy, which is mainly spread through social media, is countered by pressured tech companies to censor these sounds and remove citizens from platforms,” he added.
to drop government
The revealed documents are met with astonishment. Parliamentary questions have even been asked. “You know it happens, but it is still difficult to realize the impudence with which critical citizens are 'eliminated',” writes lawyer and publicist Sietske Bergsma.
Van der Vegt says: “Now that the Wob documents show that everything has been framed – science became political – 'disinformation' was deliberately debunked, which turned out not to be disinformation, to maintain the narrative, citizens were checked en masse, I don't know what it takes more to at least topple this government.”
crazy!
“Huh? The NCTV checks me because of my unwelcome opinion and passes this on to the Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport? Because I do my job as a Member of Parliament?! Crazy!” Agema responds.
“Trolls sent at me. To a simple Member of Parliament. By the large, powerful Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport. It won't, will it? Haven't heard from them yet," said the PVV MP.
Agema, together with Van der Plas, submitted parliamentary questions about spying on MPs and influencers. They find the state of affairs 'absolutely unacceptable'.
Aukema also says that he and his team did not come across the names of Agema and Van der Plas during their search in the Wob documents.
https://www.ninefornews.nl/wob....-documenten-geven-on