Substack SitRep: 20 August 2023

West realises it's losing Ukraine War, Tucker Carlson interviews Vivek Ramaswamy, protest songs hits #1, BRICS update and more...

Most people think that weekends are only for relaxing, that there’s no news happening during Saturday sex and Sunday church, that soldiers stop shooting and bankers stop robbing.

The Media understands that they can’t make people hysterical every day, so they deliver less news on weekends, creating most controversies whilst you’re in a traffic jam or at work, when you’re most stressed, when you’re most likely to react… and make them money. Those in war zones don’t have time off, they don’t get decide when to survive.

Here’s what happened whilst we were having fun…

DOUBLE WAKE UP (FROM BABIES & A CHILD)

THE HOT WAR

• Lost cause is in the air

• More signs the West is losing

• Denial getting ever tougher, plus

• Wagner could fall into enemy hands?

• Dmitry Medvedev agrees with me... on the future of Ukraine...

• Big brave Western proxy warriors keep whining that Ukrainian troops are cowards

THE COLD WAR

• How ECOWAS Became a Tool for Western Imperialism !

• The business of freedom and democracy

• Poland's ruling party is making elections all about national security

• Scott Ritter on YouTube censorship

• (Re)consider Hong Kong

• Hong Kong is Unrelated to Taiwan’s Fate

• Census trade data on US-China decoupling too hot to handle

• China sprints ahead in race to modernize global money flows

BRICS

• Lord Jim O'Neill calls BRICS currency idea 'Ridiculous'

• Chinese expert says BRICS expansion will speed up de-Dollarization

• New Kids on the BLOC

THE WEST

• Tucker Carlson explosively interviews Vivek Ramaswamy regarding 9/11

• Hawaii Electric, while failing to act on fire prevention, had cozy ties to regulators

• $18,9bn loss as JPMorgan Chase and Capital One take hits from bad loans

• Fitch drops US creditworthiness - spending is the reason

• De-Gamify the Earth

• Railroaded by Windmills

EVERYWHERE ELSE

• Explaining India’s evolving relations with Greece & Armenia vis- à-vis Turkiye

SOMETHING ELSE

• The unforgivable Ivermectin swindle

• AI enlightenment is dawning

• The Ghost: Without empathy there is nothing left to humanity

RICH MEN NORTH OF RICHMOND

• No. 1 on Apple, Spotify, iTunes, climbing on Billboard Hot 100

• The hit song that has divided the US

• Oliver Anthony’s viral success has spread to his whole catalogue

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