UK Column News - Friday, 11th November 2022 05:30 - Ukraine: So much is PR at this point

 

UK Column News - Friday, 11th November 2022 05:30 - Ukraine: So much is PR at this point

05:30 Sunak-Zelensky confab

Defence Secretary Ben Wallace announces hundreds (not thousands) more surface-to-air missiles for Kiev

Token arms shipments by Joint Expeditionary Force: Nordic countries, Netherlands, Baltic Republics and Britain

US big-ticket aid, such as HIMARS, will be on rolling back order for a year or two

 

09:05 Pennsky and Zelensky: Award for best actor in a proxy war — Sean Penn gifts his Oscar to Zelensky

Newly-ripped Penn has a very extensive history of turning up in the right place at the right time for the oligarchs

Clip: Preening presentation of the gilded figurine to the Taupe T-shirted One: “When you win, bring it back to Malibu”

Penn a "Covid-19 celebrity humanitarian"

March 2022 article by Josh Rogin in Washington Post: Syrian White Helmets raring for Ukrainian action

Article imminent by Vanessa Beeley on leaked documents indicating Canadian interest in funding a White Helmets operation for (but presumably not in) Ukraine

Some of the footage from Ukraine found to have been real-time fake attacks, just as in Syria

Kosovo connections also abundant between Syrian and Ukrainian ends of the White Helmets agenda

 

15:32 Britain surges to £18.3 billion in sanctions on Russia: indicative of bifurcation of entire global economy

HM Treasury Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation (OFSI) issues annual review including that sum

68% drop in Russian goods: does Britain want to be in the red or in the black?

Patrick Henningsen commentary: Russia is a key supplier to many sectors worldwide

It costs up to four times the Russian price for American LNG to be transported intercontinentally: can the First World run on that — or is the idea that it will stop being the First World?