Peace is never pursued for its own sake, because there’s nothing in it for the empire.

Stoltenberg: “I don't think we can change Putin's mind. His aim is to control Ukraine. But I do think we can change Putin's calculus. [..] And we can do that by stepping up, providing more military support to Ukraine, so Putin realizes that he will not win on the battlefield.”

To continue the same strategy after four years, while Ukraine is getting smaller and smaller, and more and more videos of Ukraine's aggressive conscription methods are floating around on social media. 69% of Ukrainians are against the war, only 24% want to fight (Gallup)… All this could have been prevented and it can stop now but NATO refuses.

– Et brutalt angrep mot sivile, sier utenriksminister Espen Barth Eide (Ap) til NTB

Rundt 430 droner og 18 raketter ble brukt i angrepet, opplyser Zelenskyj på Telegram.

– Angrepet var nøye planlagt for å skade mennesker og sivil infrastruktur mest mulig. Verden må stanse angrepene mot liv med sanksjoner, skriver Zelenskyj på Telegram. (NRK)

"A brutal attack against civilians" and "meticulously planned to hurt people". The bombing USA is doing via its proxy in Gaza, is done to kill civilians. That is how that is done. You don't use 430 drones and 18 missiles against a city like Kiev, and only kill four civilians, if the point is to kill civilians. Military analysts who are no longer in active NATO duty say that the attack must have been quite accurate to avoid more collateral damage.

In a 2021 Washington Post article, it was reported that Daniel Hale, a former member of the U.S. armed forces, leaked "classified information about drone warfare to a reporter after leaving the military." [..] "During one five-month stretch of an operation in Afghanistan, the documents revealed, nearly 90 percent of the people killed were not the intended targets."

The same vague pretext and lack of transparency that resulted in staggering civilian casualties throughout the "war on terror" [which] now continues amid the Trump administration's "war on drugs."

Perhaps we fired and silenced all the analysts who know anything about war and international affairs.

María Corina Machado får prisen for sin kamp for demokratiet i Venezuela. (NRK)

Who would think that a Zionist, who invited Israel and USA to wage war on her own country, has a democratic bone in her body, and should be given a peace price.

"As U.S. ramps up pressure, Venezuela pleads with Moscow and Beijing for help" (Washington Post)

We're used to it. Whenever media starts writing about the corruption of some foreign regime, the next thing to happen is often that USA bombs that country, sometimes helped by our military.

The goal is apparently not only to regime change Venezuela in order to control the world's largest oil reserve.

The U.S., since the end of the Cold War, has pursued a U.S.-dominated unipolar world order in which all matters are determined by and for the U.S. Part of achieving this is preventing any one single nation or group of nations from challenging America's global primacy.

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Part of the theatrics in selling this latest war of aggression includes the U.S. targeting boats allegedly trafficking illicit narcotics to the U.S. from Venezuela, despite the boats being targeted not having the physical ability to make the more than 1,000-mile (1,700 km) trip. While some seem to assume the U.S. had actionable information before carrying out the strikes, it should be pointed out that similar warfare throughout the 20-plus years of the "war on terror" resulted in mainly civilian casualties. Brian Berletic: War on Multipolarism Includes Latin America – Text

What do you think of the war in Ukraine which Norway supports, and the war against Venezuela, which Norway's Nobel price promoted?

These days whenever you see the imperial war machinery getting pulled from one area, you know it’s just going to be sent someplace else. (Caitlin Johnstone – substack)