The US capitalist economy is under attack, with banking collapses due to the creation of phoney money and rapidly rising interests rates, a plunging stock market, shades of 1929 returning! The Americans plan for all out war with its biggest economic rival China is well advanced. At this moment America is marshalling its allied warmongers in Britain, Europe, Australia, Japan and elsewhere to wage this new capitalist war. The present war with Russia in Ukraine is not sufficient to sustain the US capitalist economy, a new and bigger war is required. Australia is going to chip in $200 plus billion in the form of war buys from Big Capital, but this will prove too little too late. Of course in most American wars of aggression the flunky nation of Australia quickly become a gung-ho participant.

Russia downs MQ-9 Reaper over the Black Sea
http://www.airandspaceforces.com/russian-fighter-collides-with-american-mq-9-over-black-sea-drone-lost/

“Our MQ-9 aircraft was conducting routine operations in international airspace when it was intercepted and hit by a Russian aircraft, resulting in a crash and complete loss of the MQ-9,”

Gotta love their media spin.
They make out like they were on a recreational flight and doing absolutely nothing wrong, when it truth they were absolutely acting as a party to the war in Ukraine and as such were a military target for Russians.
It's not like they were operating just off the Coast of Florida.

How do I know the were they acting as a direct party to the war in Ukraine?
- Because Vicky Nuland said so.
http://www.youtube.com/live/UxQ0YIDC10A?feature=share&t=52

The military targets in Crimea would be considered a legitimate target for Ukrainians, and they are entitled to solicit help from others.
The US was providing surveillance and targeting for Ukrainian targets in Crimea, but because the US was helping to facilitate that with the Reapers, whether from international waters or not it then they also become a legitimate target for Russia.

I assume the SU-27 Flankers rammed the nose of their jets into the prop, rather than to fire on it. They can play it off as an 'accident' this time, but the game will be up next time, there will be no way for them to say it wasn't deliberate.

I guess we now have direct confrontation between Russia and the US, albeit an unmanned drone, operating in international waters.

A few days ago that when Russia fired a barrage of missiles, including 6 Kinzhal hypersonic missiles at Ukrainian targets and that one of those targets (unconfirmed report) was a military command and control bunker in Lviv responsible for Ukrainian air defenses that extends to 80 meters depth.
Apparently there were up to 40 NATO officers and 300 personnel there.
A day or so later the US used a B-52 to do a mock nuclear strike on St. Petersberg from the Baltic Sea.

http://www.npr.org/2023/03/09/1162127060/russia-hits-multiple-cities-across-ukraine-some-with-hypersonic-missiles

http://meduza.io/en/news/2023/03/12/an-american-b-52-bomber-capable-of-carrying-nuclear-weapons-conducted-planned-maneuvers-over-the-baltic-sea

Hey mhaze,

"Yep, those kids (http://www.bellanaija.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/mh17-victims-1-Bella-Naija.jpg) were just asking for it. The Russians who fired the missile are the real victims, eh AC?

Quite dispicable."

- You're making a statement of fact that Russians fired the missile.
Ukrainians most certainly also had BUK missile systems.
Do you think it was ok for Malaysian airlines to fly over a warzone to save a little fuel?

I feel sorry for those kids and everyone else on board, but its not like I flew the plane over a warzone to save fuel or that I shot the missile.
Do you want me to feel guilty for something that isn't my fault?

Furthermore, I showed this forum months back witness testimony from elderly women in the Mariupol Drama theater that stated the building wasn't bombed, but was filled with explosives which was willfully detonated whist many people including women, kids and elderly in order for the Ukrainians to make the claim that Russians were responsible for war crimes.

Eyewitness states Ukrainian forces blew up Mariupol Drama Theater on Purpose
http://youtu.be/cKlgBw8mQhs?t=1670
- What do you think the babooshka is a paid propagandist on the Kremlins payroll?

- With this in mind, the Ukrainians most certainly have form when it comes to false flags, specifically staging atrocities upon innocent people to give an impression of Russian war crimes, which the aim is to bolster support of people like yourself, and their governments to send money and weapons to support a Ukrainian defence.
As well as that I told everyone here way back before the Russian invasion started that I heard info that Russians did not bring down MH17 and had my doubts about the 'official' story.

You all keep talking about Russian 'human waves' and massive losses on the Russian side.

How is it that if Russia has an artillery advantage of about 8 to 1 that they're taking all these losses?
- Maybe Russians are just firing their weapons into empty paddocks like we're always told the Palestinians do.
- It's all just recreational paddock attacks?

Your narrative falls apart and doesn't make any sense, and how come the media never states what the Russian Ministry of Defence claims it's numbers of KIA and wounded are?
Are you all that dumb that you can't tell the difference between being sold a narrative rather than people attempting to truly inform you?

- If they were trying to truly inform you rather than sell you a narrative, then they would say what both sides state the numbers were, not just give you the Ukrainian and Western perspective?
- Seems to me you're all too stupid to know the difference between being informed and sold a story.

AC,

I am stunned by the quantity of unbelievable bollocks you post. A 5 yr old better has understanding of economics.

- A failure of a couple of specialty banks failing with a capacity of about 0.01% of US banking does not mean that the banking system is failing. The rest of the banks are all making a healthy profit.

- BRICS is not an organisation any more than the OECD is. It is a grouping of countries in a similar state of development. None of them has a currency that meets the requirements for a reserve currency as all these countries have state-controlled currencies for starters.

- All the BRICS countries have a debt-to-GDP ratio of twice or more of the USA.

- QE in the USA ceased a while ago and a mild recession is nothing close to a collapse.

- Russia is running a budget deficit of nearly $40bn per month and unless something changes will burn through its reserves, wealth fund and gold reserves by year-end.

- Russia is running out of money, men, ammunition, tanks etc.

- Russia is losing this war.

Massive U.S. dollar dump? BRICS to launch new currency causing tsunami of inflation - Andy Schectman Kitco NEWS
http://youtu.be/FzI0oyxQ218

China is turning 'alpha dog' in global politics, BRICS currency gaining traction - Michael Wilkerson Kitco NEWS
http://youtu.be/xFVOGJbcstQ

Countries have been moving to implement more policies and methods of dedollarisation, thanks to sanctions on Russia;
Alternative payment methods to go around SWIFT

Ukraine lacks the troops to launch any more successful counteroffensives
- Don't look at the doctored western casualty numbers look at the big picture in the story they are putting forward

Ukraine short of skilled troops and munitions as losses, pessimism grow - Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/03/13/ukraine-casualties-pessimism-ammunition-shortage/

"The quality of Ukraine’s military force, once considered a substantial advantage over Russia, has been degraded by a year of casualties that have taken many of the most experienced fighters off the battlefield, leading some Ukrainian officials to question Kyiv’s readiness to mount a much-anticipated spring offensive."

- They've put all of their eggs into keeping Bakhmut from falling.
It's not just a military aim to hold it, but also it will lead to a political crisis and destroy Ukrainian troop and citizen morale.