List of American Companies in China

Last Updated : 19 Mar, 2024

Some American companies having a large customer base in China are Apple, General Motors, Nike, Walmart, Microsoft, KFC, Starbucks, Adidas, and Coca-Cola. The list is long and the question is why the Chinese market is an attraction for American Companies to expand their business. The reason could be the huge population of China which was 667 million back in the 1960s and doubled in 2010 and now it is 1.4 billion.

The growth of the population was in such a way that an increase in middle-class people was seen. This huge increase was seen as An increase in consumers for the goods and skilled labourers for the American Companies to be set up. One of the reasons could be the policies of the Chinese government to attract such companies.

List of Top 10 American Companies in China

Some famous American companies holding a good share in the Chinese market with their industry product and the year of their arrival in China are mentioned below in the table:

S. No.	Company name	Establishment (Year)	Product TypeFried Chicken	City	Competition
1.	KFC	1987	Fast food, Beverages, and Ice Creams	Qianmen Beijing	MC Donald’s
2.	Apple	2008	Smartphones, Personal Computers, and Tablets	Sanlitun, Beijing	Huawei
3.	Tesla	2017	Electric Vehicles, Batteries, and Storage systems	Shanghai	BYD
4.	Nike	1981	Athletic footwear, and Accessories for Sports	Shanghai, China	LiNing, Adidas
5.	Starbucks	1999	Beverages, and Food	Beijing	Costa Coffee, and Luckin Coffee
6.	Procter & Gamble	1988	Grooming, Healthcare, Beauty, and Feminine products	Guangzhou	Johnson and Johnson, S.C. Johnson, and Unilever
7.	Walmart	1996	Grocery, Baby products, Clothing, etc.	Shenzhen	N/A
8.	Coca Cola	1920	Soft Drinks	Shanghai	Pepsico
9.	Boeing	1972	Commercial Planes, Defence Products, and Space Systems	Tianjin	Airbus, Embraer, and Bombardier
10.	Microsoft	1992	Operating Systems for PCs, and Phones	Haiden District, Beijing	Tencent

Top 10 American Companies in China

There are many American companies in China and some of them are discussed in detail here:

KFC

KFC was one of the most powerful foreign brands in China in 2013. Founded by Colonel Harland Sanders in 1952, and grew rapidly all over the mainland of China after 1987.

History: KFC was the first Western fast food company after the opening of its first outlet in Qianmen, Beijing in 1987. KFC was a stakeholder of 60% in a joint venture with Beijing Municipal Bureau of Culture and Beijing Food Corporation.

KFC hired veterans in the fast food industry from Taiwan instead of bringing from America itself. In 1994, there were 28 KFC outlets in China, In 2007 it rose to 2000 outlets. KFC was franchised by YUM CHINA.

Current scenario: KFC has now adapted to the taste of China. When it first arrived it was not that welcomed but now is seen as a model of globalisation on. The most selling is the Zinger Burger in the menu and it has also added rice congee and other native items to suit the taste of customers.

KFC V’S McDonald’s: MC DONALD’S entered China 3 years later than KFC in 1990, in China KFC is considered as more native while MC Donald’s is still considered as a foreign thing. The annual expansion speed of KFC in China was 70% while that of McDonald’s was 25%.

Apple

Apple is on the list of American companies in China. Apple is a multinational company that was founded in 1976; having its headquarters in California between 2011 and 2024 it was the company with the largest capitalization when it became second to Microsoft.

History: Apple was slow to establish itself in China, it began marketing the iPhone in China after 2009. In 2011, it only had six outlets in Beijing, Hongkong and Shanghai. Originally Apple faced a lot of competition from Samsung.

Current scenario: Apple’s revenue from China hits $40.31 billion in 2021. Apple stood in the first place for smartphones in China in 2023. In the first week of 2024, the shares are much down.

Competition: Apple faces stiff competition in China’s smartphone market. In 2016, Apple sold approximately 43 million units but Huawei was the first with 75 million units followed by Oppo and Xiaomi. In 2013, Apple faced huge competition from Samsung as well.

Tesla

Tesla is a multinational American company with its headquarters in Austin. It is an automotive and clean energy company Tesla recently made its position in the list of American companies in China, some of the details of the company are as follows:

History: Originally Tesla cars were exported to China from the US where they were manufactured, until Tesla had a disadvantage. In 2017 Chinese tech giant Tencent bought a 5% stake in Tesla when manufacturing started in China itself and the first factory was set up in Shanghai.

Current scenario: The graph of revenue that Tesla owns from China has been rising since 2020. Tesla got $21.75 billion from China in 2023 which is 25% of the total revenue of Tesla.

Competition: The biggest competition of Tesla in making electric vehicles is BYD which has already topped the results by the end of 2023. BYD aims at selling 3 million vehicles along with hybrids while Tesla doesn’t make hybrids.

Nike

Nike is a multinational American company in China that is the world’s largest supplier of athletic shoes and sports equipment, the headquarters of the company is in Beaverton, United States.

History: Started in China in 1981, it sponsored many clubs and sports-related events. In 2008, Nike was selected to host the Olympics during which it made a huge impact, the sales increased by 53% but after that, it could not maintain the pace and the global business fell back. In 2013, it came with a new strategy which increased sales again in 2014-2015.

Current scenario: Worldwide revenue of Nike was $46.7 billion of which from China was $7.2 billion. China is its second biggest market after the US.

Competition: Nike is facing challenges from the local brands. Li-Ning and Anta have achieved growth of 15% in their sales and have been a competition to Nike.

Starbucks

Starbucks, one of the American companies in China, is a chain of coffee houses. Its headquarters are in Seattle, Washington, and was founded in 1971. It has become the biggest chain of coffee houses.

History: Started in 1999 in Beijing, it launched 2 stores in Beijing in 2013, in 2017, it launched its single-origin Chinese coffee beans known as Starbucks Yunnan coffee.

Current scenario: The revenue of Starbucks from China was approximately $5.1 billion. The revenues have increased 51% from the previous year. China currently has 6800 Starbucks stores.

Competition: Luckin coffee, and Costa coffee have been one of the major competitors of Starbucks in China. Luckin Coffee has 10000+ stores in China while Starbucks is revolving around 6000+ stores. Luckin Coffeea offers much more affordable and online ordering options making it difficult for Starbucks.

P&G

P&G is a multinational American company for consumer goods having its headquarters in Ohio. It was founded in 1837 and now has become one of the major American companies in China.

History: P&G entered China as a joint Venture with the Hongkong company, Hutchison. The first product produced was head & shoulder shampoo which occupied over 15% of the market. The next product was crest toothpaste. In 1991 the total sales made up $50 million which raised to $5 billion in 2009.

Current scenario: The headquarters of P&G are in Guangzhou, it employs over 8000 people in China. It is one of the companies that produces large amounts of consumer goods.

Competition: P&G is one of the most successful foreign companies in China, but still faces competition from companies such as Unilever.

Walmart

Walmart is also on the list of American companies in China. Walmart operates a chain of supermarkets, discount stores and grocery stores. The headquarters are in Bentonville.

History: The first Walmart store opened in 1996, in Shenzhen. By 2003 it had 31 stores, which became 353 in 2011. In 2006, the sales rose to $2 billion. It is the seventh largest exporter in China. In 2010, Walmart’s market share was 11.2 among the supermarkets.

Current scenario: Walmart is increasing its sales by adopting a new Walmart that has more than 400 stores and 21 distribution centres in China. The total sales of Walmart is about $40.5 billion of which China contributes to $14.7 billion.

Competition: Though it faces some competition from local companies, it is one of the largest consumer goods-selling companies in China.

Coca Cola

Coca-Cola is a multinational company that manufactures carbonated soft drinks. The headquarters are in Atlanta, Georgia. In 2013, it became the country having its stores in 200 countries.

History: It came to China in 1920, but the first product was not launched until the 1970s. This was mainly due to a lack of resources.

Current scenario: Coca-Cola has over 45 factories in China giving jobs to over 48000 workers. Sprite is the most famous soft drink in China, manufactured by Coca-Cola. It holds a share of 62% in the market of soda.

Competition: The shareholding of the most powerful competitor of Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, Coca-Colais 36% in the carbonated drinks while Coca-Colaa holds a share of 55%.

Boeing

Boeing is a multinational American company that designs, manufactures and sells aircraft, rotorcraft, satellites, and telecommunication equipment. The headquarters of the company are in Virginia, US.

History: Boeing has always had a strong relationship with China since 1972. It was introduced to China when American President Richard Nixon visited China.

Current scenario: Over the last three years, China has taken delivery of every one of the four airlines. It holds more than 50% of the share market in China. Trips of passengers have increased up to 16%. A new project for 7,240 aircraft has been given to Boeing China valued over $1.1 trillion.

Microsoft

Microsoft is a multinational American company that designs applications for Android users. The headquarters are in Redmond, Washington. The most famous software products are the Windows line of operation systems & the Microsoft 365.

History: Microsoft officially entered China in 1992. In 1998, Microsoft opened Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA) in Beijing.

Current scenario: China holds less than 2% of Microsoft’s total revenue.

Conclusion

China being a country with a large population, especially a huge middle class, has a great opportunity for foreign companies to expand their business by utilising skilled and cheap labour and huge consumer goods demand. The government’s liberation policies are also one of the reasons. This can be one of the reasons why China emerged as the leading exporter in the world.

Col. Larry Wilkerson

Col. (ret.) Lawrence Wilkerson’s last positions in government were as Secretary of State Colin Powell’s Chief of Staff (2002-05), Associate Director of the State Department’s Policy Planning staff under the directorship of Ambassador Richard N. Haass, and member of that staff responsible for East Asia and the Pacific, political-military and legislative affairs (2001-02). Before serving at the State Department, Wilkerson served 31 years in the U.S. Army.

During that time, he was a member of the faculty of the U.S. Naval War College (1987 to 1989), Special Assistant to General Powell when he was Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (1989-93), and Director and Deputy Director of the U.S. Marine Corps War College at Quantico, Virginia (1993-97). Wilkerson retired in 1997 and began work as an advisor to General Powell. He has also taught national security affairs at the George Washington University.

03 01 2024 – Incompetence is Killing the US

Premiered Mar 19, 2024

1798… there is something familiar about this year.

There were 4 empires at that time .. the British, the French, the Spanish and the Russian… occupying what is now the US. The Russians were in California and Idaho. There is also architectural evidence of Russia in Iowa and South Dakota. The only empire that did not align with the United States today is Russia. This lecture on history of the US is very interesting. US military was used to ethnically cleanse Native Americans and not one of the treaties were kept by the US government.

Col. Lawrence Wilkerson will discuss the genocide in Gaza, being brutally carried out with the political, military, and financial support of the US. Mr. Wilkerson will discuss the other most pressing foreign policy issues of the day including the risk of escalating war in the heart of Europe and in the Middle East involving Israel, the US, Iran, Hezbollah, Ansar Allah (the Houthis), as well as US policies with respect to China and Taiwan.

NATO Falling Apart – The US that Hurts My Heart | Col. Larry Wilkerson

Israel’s Desperation to Drag the US into the War – Zelensky has Lost it All

02 17 2024… Neocons Destroying the US – Netanyahu Isolating Israel

03 22 2024 – Gaza is the Quintessential Example of a Failed Policy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUS4tMOgL6E

Defending democracy? US is destroying itself. Insistant hegemony

4/2022… Col. Lawrence Wilkerson on Israel: It Will Not Be a State in 20 Years

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwsP54vlP8A

04 17 24… Will Israel Go Nuclear?

Khazarian Mafia

The video explains who controls the world. Chuck Swindall does a great job explaining who they are, where they came from and how they operate.

Khazarian Mafia: The God Eaters

This video is indeed about the Khazarian Mafia, but more importantly offers the patterns by which they have fed on God by way of humanities ignorance. As Nature creatures we are an outpouring of God, and the only way we can escape the Black Sun, is to understand their modus operandi; this means changing our world view, so that true evil can be seen; for we all have been beguiled with assumptions which disguise the Demiurge. The Khazarian Mafia has worked extremely hard to present a false reality based on inculcated lies, falsified histories, and projected blame. So the point of this lecture is to not only educate the listener to the bloodlines of the Khazarian Mafia, but more importantly, the psychology by which they have eviscerated us.

Eviscerate: To disembowel a person or animal; to deprive something of its essential content – Webster

Note: It was Mike Harris that connected the dots and made the actual discovery of the presence of the KM’s secret history and blood oath to take revenge on Russia for helping Americans win the Revolutionary War and the Civil War, and their blood oath of revenge against America and Americans for winning these wars and sustaining the Union.

Part 1….

Part 2…

War Crimes of NATO

The book by the Chairman of the Foundation for the Study of Democracy Maxim Grigoriev ‘War Crimes of NATO in the Territory of the Former ‘ was published in English.

Read in full: War Crimes of NATO in the Territory of the Former Yugoslavia

On March 24 ,1999 NATO countries began an aggressive war against Yugoslavia.

The barbaric bombings of civilian infrastructure by the US, French, German, British air forces alone took the lives of over 3.5 thousand persons (including women and children), left ~10 thousand people wounded.

This book contains testimonies of victims and eyewitnesses of NATO war crimes and terrorist acts against civilians, committed in 1999. The facts presented in the book include:

Shelling of residential areas and killing civilians;

Shelling of hospitals and ambulances;

Bombing of industrial facilities to cause environmental damage;

Destruction of civilian objects;

Use of cluster and depleted uranium munitions by NATO.

The evidence of crimes presented in the book also contains direct speech and is classified according to the types of crimes under international humanitarian law.

Report and witness accounts were published in a form of a book testify to the numerous NATO war crimes, which under international humanitarian law are classified as crimes against humanity and have no statute of limitations.

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https://democracyfund.ru/userfiles/file/Breng.pdf

Crocus City Hall Terror Attack

Larry Johnson’s analysis…

Reports are coming out with ISIS taking credit for the attack in Moscow today. That is still potentially problematic for the United States, who has been linked in the past providing military assistance and training to Islamic extremists in Syria. The U.S. made a major blunder by immediately insisting that Ukraine did not carry out the attack. That suggests the U.S. knew who carried out this vicious act of terrorism and failed to warn Moscow.

Link to VIDEO

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgTCQI4lGjE

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BLAME GAME by the US…

ISIS has claimed responsibility for an attack at a large concert hall in the Moscow area that left at least 40 people dead and nearly 150 injured. The Islamic State made the claim on its affiliated social media channels, although Fox News Digital has not been able to independently verify it.

Link to VIDEO

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fB4xtS19Kvk&t=95s

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The pigs are already afraid that the consequences for Ukraine due to the terrorist attack in Crocus will be catastrophic.

Actually, hence the hasty statements by the US State Department that Ukraine had nothing to do with it.

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We already know the names of the perpetrators. We have already seen their faces and know that they “sing” during interrogation. (We do not publish the names as it is an ongoing investigation), Margarita Simonyan, editor-in-chief of Rossiya Segodnya, Sputnik’s parent media group, said while commenting on the terrorist attack in Crocus City Hall.

And it immediately becomes obvious why American media shouted in unison that it was ISIS yesterday. Because this is not ISIS*. It’s just that the actors were selected in such a way that they could convince the stupid part of the global community that it was ISIS, she added.

These are Ukrainians. And the fact that just yesterday, even before the arrests, even before the names of the perpetrators were found, Western intelligence services began to convince the world that it was ISIS – that’s what gave them away.

This is not ISIS. This is a well-coordinated team of several other, also widely known, abbreviations.

*ISIS (also known as IS/Islamic State) is a terrorist group banned in many countries.

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Is Ukraine ISIS* already?

The idea that ISIS were responsible for the Crocus Hall terrorist attack does not seem to line up, Anatoliy Matviychuk, a military expert and retired colonel who has experience in combat operations in Afghanistan and Syria, tells Sputnik.

“They [the perpetrators] were rushing to Ukraine. ISIS militants wouldn’t rush towards Ukraine unless Ukraine is ISIS [already], so they were rushing there in order to hide. So there is some inconsistency there,” he says.

Earlier, Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) reported that the perpetrators of the Moscow terror attack were detained in the Bryansk region near the Ukrainian border.

Mere hours after the attack, Western media published a series of articles in which they claimed that the ISIS terrorist group was behind it.

*ISIS (also known as IS/Islamic State) is a terrorist group banned in many countries.

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The main thing is that the American authorities do not forget how their information and political environment linked the terrorists who shot people in Crocus City Hall with the banned terrorist organization ISIS, Russian FM spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said.

Now we know in which country these bloody bastards planned to hide from persecution – Ukraine, Zakharova added.

The same country that, through the hands of Western liberal regimes, for ten years was turned into the center of the spread of terrorism in Europe, surpassing even Kosovo in extremist frenzy, the spokeswoman said.

@geopolitics_live

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Why the US ‘does have responsibility’ for Crocus City Hall terrorist attack — US Army veteran

“In a sense, the United States does have responsibility” for the Crocus City Hall terror act, Scott Bennett, a former US Army psychological warfare officer and US state department counterterrorism analyst, tells Sputnik, referring to Ukraine as the terrorists’ suspected “place of origin.”

Even if Washington claims to have no responsibility, it “still has absolute responsibility for the generation of the hatred and bloodlust and violence, which has been animating the Ukrainian psychopaths for the past 10 years, at least,” Bennett says.

According to him, even though America denies both its own and Ukraine’s involvement in the Crocus City Hall bloodshed, the US is “the only country that has been filling the Ukrainian mind swith lies, distortion, and hatred, which the fruit of those negative teachings that yield this sort of terrorist attacks.”

All this will certainly become “an edifying unifier to the Russian people who will not back down or retreat” and who “will only commit themselves to a more direct resolve to win this [Ukraine] conflict and purge their country of these fascist Nazi fanatics that NATO has been backing since 2014,” the analyst concludes.

Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) has, meanwhile, announced the arrest of all 11 individuals accused of being involved in the Crocus City Hall attack, including the four suspected terrorists, whose car was detained in the Bryansk region near the Russian-Ukrainian border. Volodymyr Zelensky’s office earlier rejected accusations of Kiev’s involvement in the attack.

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People in Moscow are flocking to donor centers to give blood after yesterday’s terrorist attack, Sputnik’s correspondent reports. There has been a huge queue at the Gavrilov Blood Center the entire morning.

The Gavrilov Blood Center in Moscow has already received more than 500 donors, volunteer Anastasia Krishtaleva told Sputnik.

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I’m absolutely floored that the usual suspects used Tajiks for this ultra dirty op. Tajikistan is mesmerizing, and Tajiks are the kindest, most gracious people. For these toxic purposes, they might as well have been Uzbeks. This is part of a vicious strategy of destabilising the Central Asian “stans” from the inside and propel them against Russia – and also China. Young Tajiks are easy prey for MI6 and Co. Add to it the drive to invite racism, especially in Moscow, against Central Asians. It’s always Plan A: vicious Divide and Rule, by any means available. There’s no Plan B.

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Citizens of Ukraine.

The terrorists wanted to hide on the territory of your still existing state. Because they knew that they would receive new documents and leave for Europe. So tens and hundreds of terrorists have already been legalized in it

The terrorists wanted to go to Ukraine because they knew that the Kiev junta, which had usurped power, would definitely help the ghouls.

Whether it was prepared by the GUR, the SBU, or whether they acted as a layer between the CIA and the killers – it doesn’t matter.

Kiev is now a concentration of Nazi officials. Who are not going to live in it afterwards.

And you will stay. It’s good if you live and don’t die for Biden in the fields.

Now the whole world knows who your authorities support. Although you are currently being used against Russia, at the first opportunity they will abandon you and shoot you like rabid dogs.

Of course, unless you yourself help to demolish this anti-human junta that revelled in the death of innocent people.

Prove your right to be called people by actions, and not by conversations in kitchens.

Unite, help the Russian Army, stop sending your relatives to slaughter.

This is a difficult and dangerous path. But Zelensky will still kill all of you or sacrifice you for his beloved.

@Two Majors

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From Ramzan Kadyrov:

“The fighters of the “AKHMAT-RUSSIA” Regiment of the Ministry of Defense of the country, deployed in the Bryansk region and providing protection of the state border between Russia and Ukraine, together with the Special Purpose Center of the FSB, detained four terrorists in the Bryansk region attempting to cross the Russian-Ukrainian border, who directly participated in the shooting of people at Crocus City Hall.

Chechen fighters arrived at the search area for the terrorists at around three o’clock in the morning and immediately began searching the area together with the FSB’s Special Purpose Center and fighters from the Leningrad Military District of the Russian Armed Forces.

With the task of capturing the killers alive, they successfully accomplished it despite the risks. None of the law enforcement officers were harmed during the special operation.

The Commander of the Western Military District troops, Lieutenant General Yevgeny Nikiforov, thanked the “AKHMAT” fighters and stated that they would be nominated for state awards.”

@DDGeopolitics

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Moscow has proved to the whole world that the Western global order has been “irreversibly altered”

Today, it is safe to say that the Western campaign to punish Russia “has failed to result in Moscow’s international ostracization,and instead served to accelerate the geopolitical reorientation of the non-transatlantic world,” writes The American Conservative. Russia may be only one of the centres of power in the emerging alternative to Western hegemony, but it was the first to demonstrate to the rest of the world that a break with the old world order was not only possible, but necessary for the country’s development.

For decades, the U.S. has constantly challenged Moscow in a position either to accept the fait accompli of NATO’s expansion at the expense of Russian security interests or to escalate with force and suffer sanctions and isolation. In a risky move, Russia chose the second path: however, instead of isolation and decline, the opposite happened. Two years after the conflict in Ukraine began, “Moscow has insulated itself from Western ostracization, thus changing the entire balance of power in not only Europe, but the world,” argues The American Conservative.

“Now, it is Russia that has the West on the horns of a dilemma: It can either watch the Kremlin achieve its strategic objectives, guaranteed in a one-sided negotiated settlement or through the continued attrition of Ukrainian forces, or it can escalate with force,” the American publication notes.

“Anything short of total Ukrainian victory is therefore an implicit admission that the “rules-based” economic and political order has been irreversibly altered.”

@ukraine_watch

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“Customer” for terrorist is the US….

Xu Jijun:

On March 22nd, in an interview with the media, the Press Secretary of the Russian President, Peskov, stated that with the active involvement of the West in the Russo-Ukrainian conflict, the so-called special military operation had de facto escalated into a “war.”

Since the beginning of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict in 2022, Russia has consistently insisted that a “special military operation” is being conducted in Ukraine. However, Russian officials, including President Vladimir Putin, have now begun gradually to use the word to describe the Russian-Ukrainian conflict.

This indicates an escalation in the scale of the war. Since March, Russia has started targeting military and industrial objectives across Ukraine, signalling the beginning of a new stage of confrontation between Russia and the West in Ukraine.

It can confidently be said that the terrorist attack on the “Crocus” concert hall has closed the chapter on the Russo-Ukrainian conflict. Now, for Russia, it is a Patriotic War in which she is obligated to emerge victorious.

@ukraine_watch

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3/24/24…

Terrorist attack at Crocus. This hour’s key news:

The number of dead, according to different reports, is 133 (information from the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation) or 143 (information from Margarita Simonyan).

The Ministry of Health of the Moscow region has updated the list of injured, which now stands at 154.

It’s a day of mourning in Russia, with flags at half-mast across the country and spontaneous tributes in the streets.

Flags are also lowered on the grounds of foreign embassies, including those of the US, the Netherlands, Sweden, Germany, Hungary and Bulgaria.

People go en masse to donate blood for the victims of the terror: more than five thousand people have come to donor centres in Moscow and the Moscow region.

The Basmanny court in Moscow may consider the arrest of the defendants in the case today, and security has been stepped up outside the court.

Emergency services are also continuing their work on the Crocus site, with Governor Vorobyov saying at around 12:00 Moscow time that it would take about six more hours to remove the debris near the stage.

Overnight, rescuers opened a technical opening on the west side of Crocus, and a 100-tonne crane is to be brought to the collapse zone to help clear the debris.

The terrorist attack in Crocus may be discussed at one of the upcoming meetings of the UN Security Council, the organisation’s deputy secretary-general told RIA Novosti.

The White House says Ukraine has nothing to do with the attack and that ISIS is to blame.

Crocus will be restored, the company that owns the site has said.

@ukraine_watch

US businessman David Sachs has said that Ukraine’s role in the terrorist attack at Crocus City Hall looks increasingly likely.

@ukraine_watch

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LIVE Video… plays over and over. To ensure the global community is aware of what happened and Russia’s response and WHY they must respond.

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While the whole world is empathising with the terrorist attack in Moscow, the Nazis in Ukraine are partying heartily:

Ukrainian restaurant has put the Crocus City set on its menu;

Ukrainian gamers have created a map of the Crocus City Hall in CS where you can shoot, set fire to and blow up virtual hostages.

Apparently it is a lot of fun to profit from other people’s grief…

@ukraine_watch

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Today the media are publishing a photograph of one of the terrorists involved in the attack, taken in Crocus by a photographer who was filming visitors there on the evening of 7 March. The photographer has now identified the terrorist after he was arrested.

We are somehow sure that this terrorist was not the only one in the concert complex that night. They were on a reconnaissance mission. And this cannot be a coincidence.

Incidentally, it was on this day that the British and American embassies warned their citizens of the threat of a terrorist attack.

The chronology goes like this:

22 February – Victoria Nuland speaks about financing of Ukraine and promises Putin asymmetric “unpleasant surprises”.

25 February – New York Times article about CIA cells in Ukraine is published

5 March – Nuland resigns

7 March – at least one member of the terrorist group visits Crocus

Night of 7-8 March – American and British embassies synchronously announce a possible terrorist attack on Moscow, particularly at concerts within 48 hours

9 March – Russian patriotic artist, Shaman, performs at Crocus (quite possible initial target of a terrorist attack).

Exactly two weeks pass.

22 March – terrorist attack with a huge number of victims in Crocus City Hall.

The preparation of the terrorist attack was obviously aimed at before Russian presidential elections (15-17 March). Something went wrong.

3/25/24…. the “customers” thought this tragedy would cause the people to rise up against Putin, however its had the reverse affect… uniting the people of Russia even more. it only takes 11% of the global population to wake others.

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A projection of “The Cranes Are Flying” is being shown on the walls of Crocus City Hall in memory of the victims of the terrorist attack

The memorial action was named in honour of the song of the same name by famous Soviet singer Magomayev. Many victims died in the concert hall named after him.

Link to Video – https://youtu.be/umfuq1ZAi9Y

Flowers to Crocus Victims

𝐄𝐬𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐔𝐤𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐟𝐥𝐢𝐜t

𝐀 𝐒𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐜 𝐀𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐲𝐬𝐢𝐬

𝐈𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐠𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐬𝐜𝐚𝐩𝐞, 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐔𝐤𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐟𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐭 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐠𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐬 𝐚 𝐟𝐨𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐩𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐛𝐞𝐭𝐰𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐍𝐀𝐓𝐎 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐜𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐑𝐮𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐚. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐊𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐥𝐢𝐧, 𝐚𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐲 𝐬𝐩𝐨𝐤𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐨𝐧 𝐃𝐦𝐢𝐭𝐫𝐲 𝐏𝐞𝐬𝐤𝐨𝐯, 𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐤 𝐚 𝐬𝐢𝐠𝐧𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐟𝐭 𝐢𝐧 𝐑𝐮𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐚’𝐬 𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐚𝐜𝐡 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐟𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐭, 𝐬𝐢𝐠𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐭 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐖𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧 𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐥𝐚𝐰. 𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐲𝐬𝐢𝐬 𝐚𝐢𝐦𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐯𝐢𝐝𝐞 𝐚 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐡𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐬𝐞 𝐝𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐨𝐩𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬, 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐜 𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐜𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐯𝐨𝐥𝐯𝐞𝐝 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐩𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐰𝐚𝐲𝐬 𝐭𝐨𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐝 𝐝𝐞-𝐞𝐬𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧.

𝐔𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐡𝐢𝐟𝐭 𝐢𝐧 𝐑𝐡𝐞𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐜

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐊𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐥𝐢𝐧’𝐬 𝐝𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐨 𝐜𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐟𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐮𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐢𝐧 𝐔𝐤𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐚𝐬 𝐚 𝐰𝐚𝐫, 𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧 𝐚 𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧, 𝐢𝐬 𝐚 𝐩𝐢𝐯𝐨𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝐦𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐟𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐭’𝐬 𝐧𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞. 𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐢𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐚 𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐲 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐬𝐢𝐠𝐧𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐚 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐟𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐟𝐭 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐞𝐠𝐚𝐥 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐜 𝐟𝐫𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤 𝐠𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐑𝐮𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐚’𝐬 𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬. 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐧𝐨𝐰, 𝐢𝐭’𝐬 𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐭𝐨 𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐠𝐧𝐢𝐳𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐟𝐭, 𝐚𝐬 𝐢𝐭 𝐫𝐞𝐟𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐬 𝐑𝐮𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐚’𝐬 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐞𝐧𝐠𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐝𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐥𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐜𝐞𝐟𝐮𝐥𝐥𝐲, 𝐞𝐬𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐍𝐀𝐓𝐎 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐖𝐞𝐬𝐭.

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐋𝐞𝐠𝐚𝐥 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐌𝐨𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐅𝐫𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤

𝐁𝐲 𝐢𝐧𝐯𝐨𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐥𝐚𝐰𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐰𝐚𝐫, 𝐑𝐮𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐚 𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐭𝐬 𝐚 𝐥𝐞𝐠𝐚𝐥 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐢𝐭𝐬 𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬, 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐖𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧 𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐢𝐧𝐯𝐨𝐥𝐯𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭. 𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐦𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐡𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐤𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐞𝐬𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐚 𝐛𝐫𝐨𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐟𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐭. 𝐈𝐭’𝐬 𝐜𝐫𝐮𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥, 𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫, 𝐭𝐨 𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐬𝐞 𝐥𝐞𝐠𝐚𝐥 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐝𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬.

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐖𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧 𝐃𝐢𝐥𝐞𝐦𝐦𝐚: 𝐓𝐨 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐞 𝐨𝐫 𝐍𝐨𝐭?

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐚 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐖𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐞𝐬 𝐚 𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐥𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐥 𝐨𝐟 𝐯𝐨𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐟𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐭. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐊𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐥𝐢𝐧’𝐬 𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬 𝐚𝐢𝐦 𝐭𝐨 𝐝𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐬𝐮𝐜𝐡 𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐛𝐲 𝐞𝐦𝐩𝐡𝐚𝐬𝐢𝐳𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐞𝐪𝐮𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐬 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧 𝐚 𝐥𝐞𝐠𝐚𝐥 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐟𝐫𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤. 𝐇𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫, 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐜 𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐜𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐖𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧 𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐱, 𝐝𝐫𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐛𝐲 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐬 𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐚 𝐩𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐑𝐮𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐛𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐤𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐢𝐧𝐟𝐥𝐮𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐟𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐭’𝐬 𝐨𝐮𝐭𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞.

𝐀 𝐑𝐢𝐬𝐤𝐲 𝐒𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐠𝐲: 𝐄𝐬𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐨 𝐃𝐞-𝐞𝐬𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐞

𝐒𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐖𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐬 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐞 𝐚 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐬 𝐚 𝐦𝐞𝐚𝐧𝐬 𝐭𝐨 “𝐞𝐬𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐝𝐞-𝐞𝐬𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐞,” 𝐡𝐨𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐦𝐩𝐭 𝐨𝐫 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐨𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐚 𝐑𝐮𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝐛𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐤𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡. 𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐚𝐜𝐡 𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐬𝐢𝐠𝐧𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐤𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐜𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧, 𝐩𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐚𝐧 𝐮𝐧𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐜𝐲𝐜𝐥𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐞𝐬𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐊𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐥𝐢𝐧’𝐬 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐭 𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬 𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐞 𝐚𝐬 𝐚 𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐝𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭, 𝐮𝐫𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐖𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧 𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐩 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐞𝐬.

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐑𝐨𝐥𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐃𝐢𝐩𝐥𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐜𝐲 𝐢𝐧 𝐃𝐞-𝐞𝐬𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧

𝐀𝐦𝐢𝐝𝐬𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐜 𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐞𝐮𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠, 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐝𝐢𝐩𝐥𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐬 𝐚 𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐮𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐝𝐞-𝐞𝐬𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐯𝐨𝐥𝐯𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐧𝐞𝐮𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬, 𝐬𝐮𝐜𝐡 𝐚𝐬 𝐈𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐚, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐟𝐢𝐠𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐬, 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐯𝐢𝐝𝐞 𝐚 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐝𝐢𝐚𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐮𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐧𝐞𝐠𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧. 𝐍𝐨𝐰 𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐥𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐬𝐞 𝐝𝐢𝐩𝐥𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐞𝐟𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐬 𝐚𝐬 𝐚 𝐦𝐞𝐚𝐧𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐦𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐠𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐟𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐭.

𝐂𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐑𝐞𝐝 𝐋𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬

𝐅𝐨𝐫 𝐝𝐢𝐩𝐥𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐜𝐲 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐮𝐜𝐜𝐞𝐞𝐝, 𝐢𝐭’𝐬 𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐜𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐡 𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞’𝐬 𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐤 𝐨𝐟 𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐜𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧, 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐡 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐞𝐬𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐟𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐚 𝐠𝐥𝐨𝐛𝐚𝐥 𝐬𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐞, 𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐝 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐡𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐝𝐢𝐚𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐮𝐞. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐫𝐨𝐥𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐈𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐚, 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐢𝐭𝐬 𝐧𝐞𝐮𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐝𝐢𝐩𝐥𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲, 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐛𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝐢𝐧 𝐟𝐚𝐜𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐬, 𝐨𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚 𝐩𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐰𝐚𝐲 𝐭𝐨 𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐨𝐧.

𝐀 𝐏𝐚𝐭𝐡 𝐭𝐨 𝐏𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐞

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐞𝐬𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐔𝐤𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐟𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐭 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐚 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐢𝐝𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐠𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐠𝐥𝐨𝐛𝐚𝐥 𝐬𝐞𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐊𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐥𝐢𝐧’𝐬 𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐤 𝐚 𝐬𝐢𝐠𝐧𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐟𝐭 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐲𝐧𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐜𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐟𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐭, 𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐢𝐧𝐯𝐨𝐥𝐯𝐞𝐝 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬. 𝐀𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐚 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐖𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐦𝐬, 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐝𝐢𝐩𝐥𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐞𝐟𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐝𝐞-𝐞𝐬𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐮𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐜𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐛𝐞 𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝. 𝐍𝐨𝐰, 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫, 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐦𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐳𝐞 𝐝𝐢𝐚𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐮𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐧𝐞𝐠𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧, 𝐥𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐟𝐥𝐮𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐧𝐞𝐮𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐭 𝐟𝐮𝐫𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐞𝐬𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐩𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐲 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐚 𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐟𝐮𝐥 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐨𝐥𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧.

𝐈𝐧 𝐧𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐠𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐱 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐞𝐯𝐨𝐥𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐔𝐤𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐟𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐭, 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐠𝐥𝐨𝐛𝐚𝐥 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐦𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐯𝐢𝐠𝐢𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚 𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐡𝐢𝐜 𝐞𝐬𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐠𝐲, 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐥𝐚𝐰, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐝𝐢𝐩𝐥𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐞𝐧𝐠𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐝𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐮𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐬𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐟𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐭, 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐟𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝 𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐠𝐥𝐨𝐛𝐚𝐥 𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐞𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐲. 𝐍𝐨𝐰 𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐚𝐜𝐭 𝐝𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐲, 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐣𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐞𝐲 𝐭𝐨𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐝 𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐞, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐩 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐲𝐜𝐥𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐞𝐬𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐞𝐧𝐠𝐮𝐥𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐛𝐞𝐲𝐨𝐧𝐝.

𝐁𝐲 Frederick Flanagan – Executive Manager – WTTV

Putin wins Russian election

Putin’s speech on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of reunification of Crimea.

Selling stolen land in the West Bank

3/5/24…. gnote…. a synagogue in Canada…. selling property in the west bank??? in occupied palestine???

“I want to buy property”

A man is prevented from attending an event by Keller Williams real estate company at Aish Hatorah in Toronto, Canada for the sale of property in Jerusalem, despite having registered for the event.

A separate event is being held by realestateisrael in the US and Canada for the sale of property in illegally occupied settlements in the West Bank.

Also, in a real estate event synagogue in NY… https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ih-NeGbFYoQ

Vampire ball is over

‘Your vampire ball is over’ – Putin to Western elites

Exploitation of other nations by the so-called “golden billion” is coming to an end, the Russian president has stated

The era of Western elites being able to exploit other nations and other peoples across the world is coming to an end, Russian President Vladimir Putin said in an exclusive interview published by Rossiya 1 and RIA Novosti on Wednesday.

The president stated that over the past few centuries, the so-called “golden billion” has grown accustomed to being able to “fill their bellies with human flesh and their pockets with money” as they have been “parasitizing” other peoples in Africa, Asia, and Latin America.

”But they must understand that the vampire ball is ending,” Putin said.

He added that the citizens of the aforementioned regions, which have been continuously exploited by the West over the past 500 years, have started to associate Russia’s struggle for sovereignty with “their own aspirations for sovereignty and independent development.”

At the same time, Putin noted that Western elites have a very strong desire to “freeze the current situation” and preserve the “unjust state of affairs in international affairs.”

Previously, in his keynote address to Russia’s Federal Assembly last month, Putin stated that the West, with its “colonial habits” of “igniting national conflicts all over the world,” intends to do everything it can to stall Russia’s development and turn it, as it did Ukraine, into a dying failed state.

”In place of Russia, they want a dependent, withering, dying space, where they can do whatever they want,” he said.

The president followed up on those comments in Wednesday’s interview, stating that many Western elites, who have been “blinded by their Russophobia” were “thrilled” when they were able to push Russia to the point where it had to launch its military offensive in Ukraine in order to end the war unleashed by the West in 2014.

”They were even happy, I think, because they believed that now they would finish us off using a barrage of sanctions, having practically declared a sanctions war against us, and with the help of Western weapons in the hands of Ukrainian nationalists,” said Putin, suggesting that this mindset was behind Western calls to “inflict a strategic defeat on Russia on the battlefield.”

Now, the West appears to have realized that defeating Russia in this way is not only unlikely, but impossible due to the unity of its people, the fundamental foundations and stability of its economy and the growing potential of its military, the president said.

”Those who are smarter” have now come to the conclusion that it is necessary to change their strategy in relation to Russia, Putin surmised.

Haiti

as of 3/11/2024

The problems of today often have their roots in history. The intro from the transcript:

Caribbean leaders are holding an emergency meeting in Jamaica today to discuss the crisis in Haiti, where armed groups are calling for the resignation of unelected Prime Minister Ariel Henry. Haiti is under a state of emergency, with tens of thousands displaced amid the fighting, and United Nations officials warn the country’s health system is nearing collapse. Ariel Henry was appointed prime minister after the 2021 assassination of President Jovenel Moïse, but he is currently stranded outside the country after a trip to Kenya, where he was seeking a U.N.-backed security force to help him maintain power.

For more, we speak with Haitian American scholar Jemima Pierre, who says the unrest in Haiti today can be traced to decisions made two decades ago by the United States and other outside powers. “The root of this crisis is not last week, it’s not this week, it’s not even Ariel Henry. But we have to go back to 2004 with the coup-d’état,” says Pierre. She adds that because successive security plans have been sanctioned by the United Nations Security Council, “the whole world is participating in the occupation of Haiti unwittingly.”

“Empire’s Laboratory”: How 2004 U.S.-Backed Coup Destabilized Haiti & Led to Current Crisis

Transcript

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AMY GOODMAN: We begin today’s show in Haiti, where fighting continues between police and armed groups calling for the resignation of the unelected Prime Minister Ariel Henry. Over the weekend, police and palace guards worked to retake some streets in the capital Port-au-Prince after armed gangs launched large-scale attacks on at least three police stations. Haiti has been under a state of emergency for the past week, with tens of thousands displaced amidst the fighting. U.N. officials are warning Haiti’s health system is nearing collapse due to shortages of staff, equipment and other resources to treat a growing number of wounded patients.

Meanwhile, the U.S. military said Sunday it conducted an overnight mission to airlift nonessential U.S. staff out of Haiti and to boost security at the U.S. Embassy in Port-au-Prince. Caribbean leaders issued a call late Friday for an emergency meeting today in Jamaica. They’ve invited the United States, France, Canada, the U.N. and Brazil to the meeting. CARICOM, the 15-nation Caribbean bloc, said in a statement, quote, “the situation on the ground remains dire.”

Ariel Henry was appointed prime minister after the July 2021 assassination of President Jovenel Moïse. Henry still has not returned to Haiti after a trip to Kenya, where he was seeking a deal for a long-delayed U.N.-backed mission to Haiti. Kenya announced last year it would lead the force, but it has effectively been placed on hold. Henry arrived in Puerto Rico Tuesday after he was unable to land in the Dominican Republic, with the Dominican president saying Henry was not welcome in the country for safety reasons.

For more, we’re joined by Jemima Pierre, professor at the Social Justice Institute at the University of British Columbia in Canada and research associate at the University of Johannesburg. She’s a Haitian American scholar and co-coordinator of the Black Alliance for Peace’s Haiti/Americas Team, which has been closely following the crisis in Haiti. Her recent article for NACLA is headlined “Haiti as Empire’s Laboratory.”

Professor Pierre, welcome to Democracy Now! Can you start off by describing what you understand is the latest on the ground, who the armed groups are, and the different sectors of Haitian society that are joining together with those armed gangs and calling for the resignation of the unelected Prime Minister Henry?

JEMIMA PIERRE: Good morning. Thank you so much for having me, Amy.

One of the things that we need to just start off with is just these are paramilitary forces. I think “gangs” is an insufficient name for them, because a lot of them are former military and former police officers, and they’re heavily armed. What’s happening is a bunch of different groups coming together to say — and they call themselves now “Viv Ansanm,” which is “Live Together,” a bunch of different various — various armed young groups, young men in groups — to say that they want to get rid of Ariel Henry.

Now, we hear that there are negotiations happening around the clock. And apparently, there are supposed to be negotiations going on today, I think, in Jamaica or by the CARICOM countries, that include the U.S., France and Canada. The problem, though, is the fact that there are all these negotiations going on outside of Haiti by many foreigners with no main participation from the Haitian masses. And I think, you know, we have to go back to understand that the root of this crisis is not last week, it’s not this week, it’s not even Ariel Henry, but we have to go back to 2004 with the coup d’état.

AMY GOODMAN: So, take us on that journey back. If you’ll give us the historical context? In your piece, it’s headlined “Haiti as Empire’s Laboratory.” In it, you write, “Haiti has been and continues to be the main laboratory for U.S. imperial machinations in the region and throughout the world.” Explain.

JEMIMA PIERRE: Yes, definitely. You know, we say the crisis in Haiti is a crisis of imperialism. In 2004, as has been revealed and admitted to, the U.S., France and Canada got together and backed a coup d’état against the country’s first democratically elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide. And the U.S. Marines flew into his home, put him on a plane with his security officials, his wife and aide, and flew them to the Central African Republic. And people can actually go to the Democracy Now! archives, which covered this live. And I remember listening to this happening live.

And the point of this was that this coup d’état, which was led by two permanent members of the U.N. Security Council, was then sanctioned by the U.N. when these same two members of the U.N. Security Council — and that’s the U.S. and France — basically pushed the U.N. Security Council into sending a multinational military force to Haiti armed under Chapter VII deployment. And that itself was illegal, because the original coup d’état was illegal. The U.S. ambassador to Haiti and the deputy ambassador were in the process — they’re the ones that named who the interim president would be, put together a Council of Sages, and basically restructured Haiti’s elected president. And back then we had 7,000 elected officials; today we have zero. And over time, I say Haiti has been under occupation, because it is this military occupation, the MINUSTAH occupation, that went from 2004 to 2007, that established the Core Group, that — it’s an unelected group of Western officials, including Brazil, which led the military arm of the occupation in 2004 under Lula, which led then — which has been controlling all the actions in Haiti, down to naming who the prime minister would be, Ariel Henry, after the assassination of Jovenel Moïse.

I have to quickly say, though, one of the key things that happened is, in 2010, after the earthquake in Haiti that killed hundreds of thousands, when the U.S. pushed the sitting president, René Préval, to have elections — and the WikiLeaks papers revealed to us later that Hillary Clinton actually flew to Haiti and changed the election results, where Michel Martelly of the PHTK political party did not make the first round, but the U.S. forced the Haitian election council to actually make him — put him in the second round. And so, establishing the PHTK, Michel Martelly, a neo-Duvalierist, as Haiti’s president with under 20% of the people voting, with the largest political party in Haiti, Lavalas, not being able to participate, we set the stage for what we see today.

So, by the time we get to Ariel Henry being imposed on the Haitian people by the Core Group, we had no elected officials, because Michel Martelly, basically, under him, we lost a lot of — we didn’t have many elections, and then he put in his protégé, Jovenel Moïse, who was also unpopular and didn’t run any elections. So we actually haven’t had any elections in Haiti since 2016, when Jovenel Moïse was selected for us by the Core Group.

And so, to understand what’s going on in Haiti, we have to understand how the original moment of the 2004 coup d’état led us to the complete destruction of the Haitian state. And if we don’t do that, we don’t understand these current flareups, where people are saying that they want their democracy back and saying that whatever negotiations that are happening outside of Haiti has nothing to do with them because it has not included them.

AMY GOODMAN: You know, when we went to the Central African Republic in a small plane with U.S. Congressmember Maxine Waters and the late founder of TransAfrica, Randall Robinson, and a Jamaican MP, we flew to the Central African Republic. They went to retrieve the Aristides, who had been put there by the United States. And as we were flying back over the Atlantic, they got word that Rumsfeld, Condoleezza Rice and Colin Powell were saying that the Aristides were not to return to this hemisphere, were not to return to Haiti, to which Randall Robinson replied, “Whose hemisphere?” And so, he was not able to land in Haiti and went into exile in South Africa, where you have also taught for many years, for over seven years, and then we went to South Africa when he finally returned to Haiti. And people can see all of those reports at democracynow.org.

But I’m wondering — I wanted to talk about the latest news, the Miami Herald reporting that Secretary of State Antony Blinken spoke by phone Thursday with Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry in a series of calls that officials described as “tense.” This is the U.S. State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller speaking Wednesday about the violence in Haiti.

MATTHEW MILLER: As the situation on the ground grows increasingly dire, we and CARICOM have continued to call on stakeholders, including the prime minister, to make concessions in the interest of the Haitian people. So, we are not calling on him or pushing for him to resign, but we are urging him to expedite the transition to an empowered and inclusive governance structure that will move with urgency to help the country prepare for a multinational security support mission to address the security situation and pave the way for free and fair elections.

AMY GOODMAN: But Jacqueline Charles, the Miami Herald reporter, said that the U.S. was pushing Ariel Henry to resign. What do you understand, Professor Pierre, about the latest, and also even where he is? Is he still in Puerto Rico, unable to get back to Haiti?

JEMIMA PIERRE: Yeah, he’s in Puerto Rico under FBI’s protection. He had to leave the hotel he was in when he first landed, because Haitian people living in Puerto Rico were protesting his presence in the state. And so that’s important.

You know, the U.S. government is being extremely hypocritical here, because in 2004, when the U.S. Marines landed at Aristide’s house, put him on a plane and told the world that he resigned, before the plane even landed in Central African Republic, and basically put in power a whole new government, and now they’re saying that this unelected prime minister that they put in place refuses to resign, where he actually has no legitimacy and no mandate whatsoever.

I also want to say quickly, just to touch back to the question earlier, is, the reason I say Haiti is a laboratory, because this is the first coup d’état that was sanctioned by the U.N., and Haiti was ruled by a multilateral coalition of all these countries. And so, the U.N. occupation of Haiti, through MINUSTAH and through the Core Group, is multinational, multiracial, and it almost seems as if this is a humanitarian effort as opposed to a coup d’état that has been successful. And so, the whole world is participating in the occupation of Haiti unwittingly, because — and this is how — we have to remember how the U.S. will work, and they will use their proxies to do the dirty work for them.

And I want to say what’s happening today on the ground with CARICOM is also a problem, because back in 2004, P.J. Patterson, who was the leader — who was the president of CARICOM, was very much against the removal of Haiti’s sitting president. In fact, he refused to acknowledge the imposed government that the U.S. put on us. But now CARICOM is playing a different role where they’re bringing the U.S., France and Canada, the people who did the original sin, to pick our leaders again.

And so, the problem is, if this goes on and if they don’t take into account other solutions that Haitians have been putting together — you know, in early 2021, you had La Fanmi Lavalas come up with Sali Piblik, which means that we need to start over and change the system. We had the Montana Accords. We have local groups that actually had a solution before the Moïse assassination. The U.S. government was trying to protect Moïse and basically ignored all these local solutions. And so, now they cannot say that they’re here to help Haiti, as much as trying to figure out how to put in place another unpopular and illegal government, and so then we’ll have the same problem a few years down the line.

The other thing I want to quickly say — I know, in a hurry — is that the people funding these armed groups are part of the oligarchy. And most of the guns and ammunition are coming from the U.S. People must remember that in the late 2022, in early 2023, the Canadian government sanctioned three of the richest oligarchs in Haiti. That’s Gilbert Bigio, Reynold Deeb and Sherif Abdallah. The Canadian government also sanctioned former President Michel Martelly and other — and Laurent Lamothe, his prime minister, all of them because they — for drug trafficking, but also for funding these armed groups. And so, in the news we get, you get these guys that look, you know, like raggedy — ragged and poor, but then the people really funding them, because Haiti does not manufacture guns, are these elites that are behind all the violence. And so I also want to put that into very clear context so that we know that this is a very complex problem that’s very much set up by the 2004 coup, but also perpetuated by the oligarchy and the U.S., which work together to keep Haiti unstable, so that we can say Haiti is ungovernable and we need to come in and save it.

AMY GOODMAN: Can you explain who Guy Philippe is, who just left U.S. prison in November, his role in the coup in 2004 and now what he’s doing?

JEMIMA PIERRE: Right, and this is very important. Thank you for asking this. Guy Philippe was around in 2004. In fact, Guy Philippe was trained by the U.S. in Ecuador and spent a lot of time training in — living and training in the Dominican Republic. So, in the lead-up to coup d’état against Aristide in 2004, what you had is — all the fall of 2003, what you had, Guy Philippe and his armed groups would ransack — would cross into the border and ransack and attack police stations and so on and so forth. Back then, which is fascinating, if you look up in the news, the Western media portrayed him as a freedom fighter. He was the hero standing up against the evil Aristide, according to the West. And so they supported him. And he would say later that he was actually being funded by the CIA and so on.

And then, as soon as, you know, what happened, once they removed Aristide, what you have is they tried to integrate these former armed military groups into the Haitian National Police, because Aristide had disbanded the army. And so, what you have is — that’s why I say we have to call these “paramilitaries,” because these are former armed groups that actually were funded by outsiders to oust our democratically elected president.

And here we are. Guy Philippe was arrested by the U.S. and put in prison for drug trafficking. And we have to understand this, because even during his trial, there are certain things that were kept secret because it implicated the U.S. government. And so, he served six years in prison as a criminal in the U.S., and now the U.S. dumped him in Haiti in November 2023, after serving six years of a nine-year term. And so now he’s back running around saying he wants to be president.

And he’s getting — you know, you’re saying Haiti’s — you know, everyone pretends that Haiti — you know, are saying that Haiti is at war, and so on and so forth, but the reality is, Guy Philippe is giving interviews to all the mainstream press. Guy Philippe gives more interviews than the local people who are organizing against repression. We don’t hear them in The Washington Post, but we hear Guy Philippe. But I wonder what the U.S. role is for Guy Philippe right now. And as far as I’m concerned, he should be tried for treason, because he was behind — he worked with the U.S. to actually remove our elected president. And so, we have to be very careful about what the U.S. is bringing, what the mainstream media is bringing to us as real and as the situation, when we know the situation is actually very much controlled by the U.S. and the Core Group when it comes to Haiti.

AMY GOODMAN: And Chérizier, known as “Barbecue,” the leader of one of the most powerful armed groups, explain his role right now and the alliance that has been formed between the armed groups. And also, really, is it true, for the very first time, sort of forming an alliance with the elite. as well, at least agreeing that Ariel Henry should be ousted?

JEMIMA PIERRE: Yes, apparently, it seems like Chérizier has joined in with all the other groups that they were having trouble with. And so, it is a combination of all kinds of groups that had worked against one another, that have fought against one another, and now they’re coming together to get rid of Henry. And I think part of the problem is, I think they’re afraid of this supposedly Kenyan-led, but U.S.-pushed, Kenyan mission of a thousand police officers coming in, another foreign invasion, and they’re worried about their position in Haitian society.

I do think the elite have to be brought into this, the oligarchs of Haiti that are funding this and supporting this, because this nonstop ammunition comes from somewhere. They’re coming from these ports that are owned by the elites. And so, there might be a — you know, we don’t know the machinations behind these gangs, who’s paying for them. You know, we know that they broke into the ports and emptied some containers. We don’t know what they took. But we know that the ports are not owned by the people, they’re owned by the oligarchs.

And so, what’s going on in Haiti is actually very important, because it’s — I don’t think it’s a plan that the U.S. wanted, which is why they rushed Henry to Kenya to sign this bilateral agreement, after the Kenyan courts said that it was unconstitutional for Kenya to send its police to Haiti. But I think things changed faster than they anticipated, and so now they’re scrambling for a new plan in Haiti. And in the meantime, what’s happening is our people, that are the people — the poor people on the ground, are the ones suffering.

AMY GOODMAN: Well, Jemima Pierre, we want to thank you so much for your analysis, professor at the Social Justice Institute at the University of British Columbia in Canada, was before that at UCLA and is research associate at the University of Johannesburg, a Haitian American scholar and co-coordinator of the Black Alliance for Peace’s Haiti/Americas Team, which has been closely following the crisis in Haiti. We’ll link to your piece in NACLA, “Haiti as Empire’s Laboratory.”

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Kenya halts Haiti security mission

The decision comes after the island nation’s prime minister, Ariel Henry, announced that he would resign

Kenya’s plan to deploy police officers to Haiti as part of a multinational security mission has been postponed following a decision by the Caribbean nation’s prime minister to resign, an official from the East African country’s foreign ministry has announced.

The Kenyan foreign ministry’s principal secretary, Abraham Korir Sing’Oei, told the media on Tuesday that Haiti would need a government in place to facilitate the mission.

“The critical ground situation is that there has to be an authority that can be the basis for a police deployment, that enjoys constitutional authority in Haiti,” he said, according to Reuters.

Last October, Kenya agreed to contribute 1,000 police officers and lead a UN-backed mission to combat criminal gangs and militant groups in Haiti. A court in the East African country ruled the move unconstitutional in January, but Kenyan President William Ruto has vowed that the plan will go ahead regardless.

Haiti, a nation of 11.4 million people, has seen an alarming surge in crime and unrest, including kidnappings, robberies, and murders, with armed gangs taking over some of its main ports and driving shortages in key goods. Statistics show that gangs control up to 80% of the capital of the country, which was devastated by an earthquake in 2010. The UN recently reported that more than 8,400 people were victims of Haitian gang violence last year, more than double the numbers seen in 2022. More than 800 people have been killed in January alone, the UN Human Rights Office says.

Ruto announced at the beginning of March that he had signed an agreement with Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry, who had traveled to Nairobi to expedite the delayed deployment. While Henry was in Kenya last weekend, armed gangs stormed the island’s two largest jails, reportedly freeing more than 4,000 inmates and demanding his resignation. The situation prompted the government to declare a three-day state of emergency and impose a nighttime curfew.

On Tuesday, the prime minister announced that he would resign once a transitional presidential council was formed. He became the leader of the unelected government in Port-au-Prince following the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moise in 2021. He requested an “immediate” deployment of a specialized international armed force in October 2022 to address the country’s deteriorating unrest.