NewsReal with Joe and Niall

Things aren't looking good for the Russian 'SMO' in Ukraine. Increasingly bold sabotage attacks by the Ukrainians last week, together with the almighty row kicked off by Wagner founder Yevgeny Prigozhin about official Russian military support for his mercenary army (and the apparent lack thereof), do not augur well for Russian success against the coming 'Ukrainian counter-offensive' to drive them back beyond the Sea of Azov. Is it all just 'optics' though? Does Russia just look weak, while in fact retaining the stronger hand? On this NewsReal, Joe & Niall sift the 'information war' from the 'tanks-and-guns' war, highlight the latest 'geoeconomic shifts' in the transition to a multipolar world order, and discuss the dire implications for free speech following the trial launch of a draconian crackdown on such in Ireland. Show notes: https://www.sott.net/article/480018-NewsReal-Russian-In-fighting-Kremlin-Hit-With-Drones-Ukraine-Winning NewsReal on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NewsReal-With-Joe-Niall-100490478966978 Joe Quinn on Facebook: https://twitter.com/SeosQuinn Niall Bradley on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Niall_Diarmuid

The last prominent anti-war voice in US mainstream media has been taken 'off air'. For now anyway, Tucker Carlson has been silenced, another clear signal that freedom of speech in the US is no more. Meanwhile Bobby Kennedy Jr's popularity is growing as he seeks to do the impossible by becoming president and pulling the US out of terminal decline. Also on this NewsReal, Joe & Niall prepare to swear allegiance to 'King Charles III', join St. Fauci in avoiding 'the blame game' over Covid, watch the Pentagon... er, Ukraine, make final preparations for 'the big push' against the Russians, pillory EU leaders for buying vast amounts of Russian oil at higher cost from third parties, and revisit revelations that the CIA swung the 2020 election for the Bidens, and thwarted FBI investigations into Saudi spies 'handling' some of the 9/11 'hijackers'. Show notes: https://www.sott.net/article/479785-NewsReal-Regime-Fires-Tucker-Carlson-Pentagon-All-Set-For-Total-Victory-in-Ukraine NewsReal on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NewsReal-With-Joe-Niall-100490478966978 Joe Quinn on Facebook: https://twitter.com/SeosQuinn Niall Bradley on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Niall_Diarmuid

Attention citizens! Putin is preparing to attack the UK! At least, that's what British media and govt officials are reporting, while testing their new 'emergency alerts' system on every mobile phone in the country. The government wouldn't do fake news and hype up non-existent threats, would it? Also on this NewsReal, Joe and Niall discuss Anglo-American certainty that Ukraine is poised to retake Crimea and join NATO and the 'Eur-Atlantic Family' - whatever that is - the admission by an ex-CIA Director that 'the US intelligence community' interfered in the 2020 presidential election, the confirmation by Elon Musk that said community has been 'all over' the back-end of social media platforms reading people's private messages, the potential impact of Bobby Kennedy Jr's entry into the 2024 presidential race, Trump's warning that the US is in its worst crisis in 200 years, and more! Show notes: https://www.sott.net/article/479593-NewsReal-British-Govt-Sends-Out-Alert-Putin-Preparing-to-Attack-UK NewsReal on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NewsReal-With-Joe-Niall-100490478966978 Joe Quinn on Facebook: https://twitter.com/SeosQuinn Niall Bradley on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Niall_Diarmuid

Never mind all the signs of US economic woes and collapsing Western hegemony, Joe Biden took his 'artistic' son on a 5-day trip to Ireland, where the natives gave them a better reception than they would receive anywhere in the US. Meanwhile, Macron is received with full state honors in China, Pentagon leaks reveal (among other things) a growing rift between the US and Israel, Middle East peace moves are freaking out Washington, and another string of industrial 'accidents' hits the US. Join Joe & Niall as they assess recent tectonic shifts in the changing world order! Show notes: https://www.sott.net/article/479381-NewsReal-What-Collapsing-US-World-Order-Bidens-Holiday-in-Ireland-as-Macron-Points-EU-East NewsReal on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NewsReal-With-Joe-Niall-100490478966978 Joe Quinn on Facebook: https://twitter.com/SeosQuinn Niall Bradley on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Niall_Diarmuid

** Starts at 03:47 ** Turns out Trump wasn't wrong when he said, two weeks ago, "they're coming after me..." But the regime can't seriously believe that he will go to prison over a payment he made to a (literal) whore 7 years ago, can they?! Also on this NewsReal, Joe & Niall look back on a week that included: A mass shooting at a school in Nashville by a crazed 'transgender' woman; the filing of bi-partisan legislation (the 'Restrict Act') that would block Americans from accessing information from 'unapproved sources' (upon pain of 20 years' imprisonment); notable developments in the ongoing 'de-dollarization' of international trade; the US piling pressure on Pakistan to 'terminate' its democratically-elected leader Imran Khan; the US VP's 'charm offensive' tour of African states; what looks like another US State Department color revolution (in Israel of all places!); and a daunting report on the falling average age of life expectancy in the US. It's ugly stuff, but that's what happens at the End of Empire... Show notes: https://www.sott.net/article/478938-NewsReal-Trump-Says-US-Dead-as-Regime-Indicts-Him NewsReal on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NewsReal-With-Joe-Niall-100490478966978 Joe Quinn on Facebook: https://twitter.com/SeosQuinn Niall Bradley on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Niall_Diarmuid

US Congress members made a complete ar$e of themselves last week when grilling TikTok's CEO about his 'Chinese Communist Party ties' and his website's 'malign influence on American children', paving the way - they hope - for the dehumanization the Chinese people in Americans' eyes, a prelude to some form of crazy 'war' against the world's most populous country. Meanwhile, in the real world, the historic summit between Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping inspired much fear and loathing from Washington's permanent bureaucracy - albeit disguised in weasel words and 'exceptionalist' dogma about 'the unbeatable power of US leadership'. The signs, however, are clear: the US is no longer the country most others look to - for anything... Show notes: https://www.sott.net/article/478685-NewsReal-Exceptionalist-Overdrive-US-Scorns-Russia-China-Alliance-Touts-US-Leadership NewsReal on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NewsReal-With-Joe-Niall-100490478966978 Joe Quinn on Facebook: https://twitter.com/SeosQuinn Niall Bradley on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Niall_Diarmuid

Is Trump about to be arrested? He certainly thinks so, and has put out a call for people to protest in his defense. Curiously, last week Pakistan's 'Trump', Imran Khan, narrowly avoided arrest when his supporters took to the streets in their thousands to prevent police executing a warrant. And then there's the ICC's 'international arrest warrant' for Putin, wanted for 'war crimes against children'... As the Battle for Bakhmut - and thus all Ukraine, it seems - reaches boiling point, the Russian military last week directly and openly clashed with the US. And... nothing! At least, no WW3. All that came out of it was Washington 'shaming' Moscow for "environmentally-unsound flying." How gay! Show notes: https://www.sott.net/article/478471-NewsReal-Trump-Under-Arrest-Putin-Wanted-by-ICC-Globalists-Gunning-For-Nationalist-Leaders NewsReal on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NewsReal-With-Joe-Niall-100490478966978 Joe Quinn on Facebook: https://twitter.com/SeosQuinn Niall Bradley on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Niall_Diarmuid

The 'Covid Origins Story' reemerged recently with FBI Director Christopher Wray stating that the pandemic "most likely" stemmed from a "lab incident" in Wuhan, China. This energized Republicans' Covid probes, resulting in unanimous Congressional support for "publishing all government files on Covid's origins." If such happens, you can bet that all resulting "revelations" will be "dynamically shaped" to smear China. Together with "Balloon-gate," this is grist to the mill of "containing China," something President Xi of China this week, for the first time, explicitly stated is the US' "grand geopolitical strategy" for thwarting China's rise. Meanwhile, the Chinese government has brokered a tentative peace agreement between Saudi Arabia and Iran, something the US had nothing to do with, and which signals diminishing American influence in the Middle East, the "energy spigot" of the whole world... Show notes: https://www.sott.net/article/478225-NewsReal-US-Govt-in-Deep-Denial-as-New-World-Emerges NewsReal on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NewsReal-With-Joe-Niall-100490478966978 Joe Quinn on Facebook: https://twitter.com/SeosQuinn Niall Bradley on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Niall_Diarmuid

It's been a busy week for the Chinese foreign ministry, proposing a peace plan for Ukraine while fending off Western accusations that it instead plans to supply weapons to Russia, then publishing a series of reports on the negative impact of American hegemony on world order. Up until now, we've just heard such condemnation of US foreign policy in Putin's speeches, but are we now seeing China announce its alliance with Russia against America? Meanwhile, in an apparent move to 'steal Vlad's thunder', Biden's handlers sent him to Kiev and Warsaw for 'attaboys', which they hoped would distract Westerners from Putin's 'state of the nation' speech. Judging by popular reaction, especially from conservatives and nationalists, their scheme failed - all the more so because Trump came to the aid of residents of East Palestine, Ohio, the scene of a strange (and potentially deadly) 'industrial accident', which Biden refused to do. Show notes: https://www.sott.net/article/477737-NewsReal-Enter-The-Dragon-China-Sides-With-Russia-Against-America NewsReal on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NewsReal-With-Joe-Niall-100490478966978 Joe Quinn on Facebook: https://twitter.com/SeosQuinn Niall Bradley on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Niall_Diarmuid

Following the 'high' of UFO-balloon-gate, US imperial policy returned to Earth this week as Western leaders paraded their psychotic embrace of global hegemony at the annual Munich Security Conference (MSC). This time last year, the annual pow-wow ended with Zelensky floating the idea of Kiev acquiring nuclear weapons, at which point Russia declared its recognition of the breakaway Donbass republics and launched a 'special military operation' to 'denazify' Ukraine. Statements made by Western leaders at MSC 2023 - by the British PM in particular - suggest the Anglo-Americans remain committed to fighting to the last Ukrainian to achieve 'existential victory' over Russia - and if that requires upending civilization and causing suffering on a gargantuan scale, then so be it. Show notes: https://www.sott.net/article/477488-NewsReal-Western-Politicians-Destroy-Civilization-in-Quest-For-Victory-Over-Russia NewsReal on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NewsReal-With-Joe-Niall-100490478966978 Joe Quinn on Facebook: https://twitter.com/SeosQuinn Niall Bradley on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Niall_Diarmuid

What in the name of God is going on in America? Following last week's comically bizarre 'Chinese Spy Balloon Shoot-down', this weekend the Pentagon declared that it shot down two MORE 'Chinese balloons' over Alaska and Canada, and that it scrambled fighter jets to investigate a 'radar anomaly' over Montana. (And, since airing, a FOURTH balloon has been downed by the US Air Force over Lake Huron.) What's different this week is that the Pentagon isn't exactly confirming that these latest 'objects' are balloons, much less Chinese 'spy' ones. In fact, the media and govt spokespeople seem to be deliberately insinuating that these 'unidentified objects' are... extraterrestrial in origin! In this NewsReal, Joe & Niall suggest that the USA is NOT "under attack" - from either China or aliens. More likely, the Pentagon is knocking out Chinese versions of the very same network of stratospheric spy balloons the US military sent up for global military surveillance many years ago. The Pentagon is 'taking out' a competing sub-space ISR network under the guise of an 'alien invasion', thereby 'setting the theater' for an upcoming proxy war with China. Show notes: https://www.sott.net/article/477285-NewsReal-Alien-Balloon-Malarkey-Setting-The-Stage-For-Proxy-War-Against-China NewsReal on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NewsReal-With-Joe-Niall-100490478966978 Joe Quinn on Facebook: https://twitter.com/SeosQuinn Niall Bradley on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Niall_Diarmuid

* Show begins at 01:45 * Chinese Communist spy balloon? Chinese Communist bioweapon sent from Wuhan to destroy the Free World™? The whole world (i.e., the USA) was stunned this week as a Chinese high-altitude balloon dared traverse the USA before being shot down in stunning and brave military move by an air-to-air missile fired from an F-22 fighter jet over US waters in the Atlantic. Bullet dodged? Er, no. As Joe and Niall explain in this NewsReal, such balloons (Chinese, research, 'spy' or otherwise) traverse the US and elsewhere on a regular basis. What's different this time is that 'someone' overruled the Pentagon's initial assessment that this balloon posed no threat to US national security to instead make a REALLY big deal out of it... Show notes: https://www.sott.net/article/477039-NewsReal-Chinese-Balloon-Its-All-About-The-Optics NewsReal on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NewsReal-With-Joe-Niall-100490478966978 Joe Quinn on Facebook: https://twitter.com/SeosQuinn Niall Bradley on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Niall_Diarmuid

The German foreign minister stated this week that "we are at war with Russia." The French foreign ministry immediately corrected her to say, "No, we are not at war with Russia!" Meanwhile Hungarian PM Viktor Orban told the American Conservative magazine, "Yes, we are at war with Russia," and the Russian government clarified that it considers the transfer of heavy weaponry from NATO countries to Ukraine to mean that NATO is now "a party to the conflict." Well, are 'we' at war with Russia or not? Also on this NewsReal, Joe and Niall discuss the recent flare-up of terrorism in Israel and western Europe, along with the bizarre triple 'Asian' mass shooting mayhem in southern California. Show notes: https://www.sott.net/article/476783-NewsReal-So-Are-we-at-War-With-Russia-or-Not NewsReal on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NewsReal-With-Joe-Niall-100490478966978 Joe Quinn on Facebook: https://twitter.com/SeosQuinn Niall Bradley on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Niall_Diarmuid

In an apparent last-ditch effort to thwart Russian forces sweeping across Ukraine, the Anglo-Americans are putting enormous pressure on Germany to greenlight the delivery of thousands of German-made Leopard 2 tanks to the 'war theater' they created. Faced with the prospect of the Russian army destroying German tanks en masse, for the second time in 80 years, will Germany cave and repeat history? Meanwhile, the 'globalist elite' are meeting in Davos, Switzerland, for this year's World Economic Forum, where its representatives and prestigious guests are doing everything possible to validate ordinary people's suspicions that 'the globalists' are megalomaniacs. Show notes: https://www.sott.net/article/476538-NewsReal-Germany-Sending-Tanks-to-Save-Ukraine-WEF-Meets-to-Save-The-Planet NewsReal on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NewsReal-With-Joe-Niall-100490478966978 Joe Quinn on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JoeQuinnSOTT Niall Bradley on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Niall_Diarmuid

We know, right - shocking, scandalous! Except, it isn't. Which senior official in DC does not have classified documents in their home?! And yet, the US govt and media last week made a big stink about it, to the point that AG Merrick Garland has announced a Special Counsel to 'investigate Biden's wrong-doing'. Clearly, this is a contrived message to pressure Biden, possibly to ward him off re-running in 2024. In the meantime, MAGA Republicans are achieving with astonishing rapidity all they wished for (and more!) when bargaining with Kevin McCarthy for him to become Speaker of the House. It's all going so smoothly for the Republicans, one begins to wonder whether they're being set up for a fall... Also on this NewsReal, Joe and Niall explain why an extraordinarily familiar 'J6-style Insurrection' took place in Brazil last week, resulting in ex-president Jair Bolsonaro being globally condemned for 'inspiring', if not outright organizing, a 'failed fascist coup'. Show notes: https://www.sott.net/preview/361127-NewsReal-Whats-Biden-Been-Hidin-Classified-Documents NewsReal on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NewsReal-With-Joe-Niall-100490478966978 Joe Quinn on Twitter: https://twitter.com/SeosQuinn Niall Bradley on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Niall_Diarmuid

After a contentious opening to the US Congress 2023-2024 that saw Republican rebels force 15 (FIFTEEN!) votes for Speaker of the House, it's likely that Trump loyalists have stamped their influence on what is now a GOP-majority House of Representatives. While it's too early to know for sure, Joe Quinn speculates that this signals a sea-change in overall US government policy - one that will bring it in line with the direction President Trump had attempted to steer it towards: significantly increased US economic protectionism, coupled with reduced spending on foreign wars and client governments. Never-Trumpers will be loathe to admit it, of course, but they're coming around to realizing that Trump was right. Alas, it may now be too late to save the US from economic chaos... Show notes: https://www.sott.net/article/476065-NewsReal-MAGA-Congress-Speaker-House-Fight-Signals-Shift-Towards-US-Isolationism NewsReal on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NewsReal-With-Joe-Niall-100490478966978 Joe Quinn on Twitter: https://twitter.com/SeosQuinn Niall Bradley on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Niall_Diarmuid

2022 is almost over! Joe and Niall look back on some of the highs (and lows) of a turbulent year. From crushing freedom protests in Canada to raking in billion$ from war in Ukraine, it was another great year... for the elites. For the people, not so much, but at least the 'clown shoes' antics of their leaders have clarified much about so-called 'democracy'. Show notes: https://www.sott.net/article/475428-NewsReal-2022-Year-in-Review-From-Canada-Freedom-Convoy-to-US-Russia-Proxy-War NewsReal on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NewsReal-With-Joe-Niall-100490478966978 Joe Quinn on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JoeQuinnSOTT Niall Bradley on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Niall_Diarmuid

2022 is almost over! Joe and Niall look back on some of the highs (and lows) of a turbulent year. From crushing freedom protests in Canada to raking in billion$ from war in Ukraine, it was another great year... for the elites. For the people, not so much, but at least the 'clown shoes' antics of their leaders have clarified much about so-called 'democracy'. Show notes: https://www.sott.net/article/475428-NewsReal-2022-Year-in-Review-From-Canada-Freedom-Convoy-to-US-Russia-Proxy-War NewsReal on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NewsReal-With-Joe-Niall-100490478966978 Joe Quinn on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JoeQuinnSOTT Niall Bradley on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Niall_Diarmuid

More 'Twitter Files' published this week confirmed widespread US government and LGBT+ activists' interference in 'managing' social media platforms to 'de-amplify' dissenting voices on secret blacklists. Besides outright censorship through banning, we also learned their 'rationale' for banning Trump, and that shadow-banning is really a thing - you were not imagining it, and everyone in the media and government has spent the last 6 years gaslighting you about it. Also on this week's NewsReal, Joe and Niall examine the bizarre claims in German media this week about the uncovering of a 'royalist plot to violently overthrow the government'. Thanks only to dawn raids on 130 premises by over 3,000 police officers was democracy this week 'saved' in Germany, which narrowly avoided being taken over by armed, elderly, aristocratic, anti-vaxx, QAnon conspiracy theorists. No, that's what they actually claimed! Finally, Viktor Bout has returned to Russia. Why on Earth would the US government release 'the second-most-wanted-man-alive' after Osama Bin Laden - who they labelled the 'Lord of War' and the 'Merchant of Death' - to RUSSIA, in the midst of a conflict against that country of apocalyptic, existential proportions? Show notes: https://www.sott.net/article/475169-NewsReal-Twitter-Files-Expose-Feds-German-Royalist-Coup-Plot-Russian-Lord-of-War-Exchanged NewsReal on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NewsReal-With-Joe-Niall-100490478966978 Joe Quinn on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JoeQuinnSOTT Niall Bradley on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Niall_Diarmuid

** BANNED ON YOUTUBE ** After wailing non-stop about Trump's alleged collusion with the Russian government 'to subvert US democracy', but never actually proving their false claim, the media is now having to eat crow as Elon Musk shares archives of Twitter company emails with Democratic Party operatives and US government agents who colluded to censor the Hunter Biden laptop story just prior to the 2020 US presidential election, thereby misinforming the electorate and potentially swaying voters to make choices they would otherwise not have. In this NewsReal, Joe and Niall take stock of this unassailable proof that yes, collusion really took place to subvert American democracy, but no, it was not Russians behind it! This courageous move by new Twitter owner Elon Musk, coupled with other viewpoints and ideas expressed by the tech tycoon, suggest that he is heading for a major clash with the American 'deep state' - and he is already warning his Twitter followers that he is 'not feeling suicidal'... Show notes: NewsReal on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NewsReal-With-Joe-Niall-100490478966978 Joe Quinn on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JoeQuinnSOTT Niall Bradley on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Niall_Diarmuid

Excess deaths - the numbers of people who die on a weekly basis above the 5-year-average - are up way higher today than they were in 2020, yet the media is not sounding the alarm. Instead it's being calmly reported that the massive jump in energy prices in Europe this year will translate into the additional, preventable deaths of hundreds of thousands of people. This week on NewsReal, Joe and Niall discuss the first semi-official warnings from European leaders that they've been duped into destroying European food and energy supplies in order to transplant much of Europe's industrial base to the USA, warning that "the Continent [is] turning into an industrial wasteland." And it's all being done under everyone's nose under the guise of 'saving the poor Ukrainian people' and 'saving the planet'... Show notes: https://www.sott.net/article/474685-NewsReal-USA-De-industrializing-Europe-EU-Insiders-Issue-Stark-Warning NewsReal on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NewsReal-With-Joe-Niall-100490478966978 Joe Quinn on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JoeQuinnSOTT Niall Bradley on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Niall_Diarmuid

Elon Musk has reinstated Trump's Twitter account, and Trump has declared his candidacy for the 2024 US presidential election. With the US mid-term votes not yet fully 'counted', and the Brazilian government cracking down on mass demonstrations against their 'free and fair' presidential election, what way forward for 'free speech' and democrats (actual ones - not to be confused with Democrats)? Elsewhere in this week's NewsReal run-down of events in Clown World, Joe and Niall take in more strange 'jungle' analogies from European leaders lecturing Asian and African audiences, violent riots in Iran where 'mystery snipers' are targeting both protesters and security forces, and the Turkish government blaming the US government for last week's terror attack in Istanbul. An outrageous claim, surely?... Show notes: https://www.sott.net/article/474484-NewsReal-Trump-Musk-and-Free-Speech-Who-Decides NewsReal on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NewsReal-With-Joe-Niall-100490478966978 Joe Quinn on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JoeQuinnSOTT Niall Bradley on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Niall_Diarmuid

They say it's for protecting Ukraine from Russian invasion, and that even if Putin 'gets what he wants' from there, 'standing up for Ukraine' is 'just the right thing to do'. Obviously, this reason is not credible, coming as it does from people who destroyed Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya and Syria. There are always REAL reasons - usually Big Money ones - behind the propaganda narratives. So, in Ukraine's case, what is it that impels NATO countries to send their entire military arsenals to Ukraine, plunge their economies into economic despair and energy blackouts, and risk permanently upending global stability? In the first hour of this NewsReal, Joe and Niall come up with a 'big picture answer'. The second hour covers the upcoming US Mid-Term Elections (will Trump-backed candidates win 'bigly', or will the Democratic Party pull off another 'miraculous' victory?), and the bizarre incident involving the Speaker of the House's elderly husband, a hammer, and a strange friend - who the media suggests was a pro-Trump right-winger who entered the Pelosis' home with assassination on his mind. Right... NewsReal on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NewsReal-With-Joe-Niall-100490478966978 Joe Quinn on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JoeQuinnSOTT Niall Bradley on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Niall_Diarmuid Show Notes: https://www.sott.net/article/473998-NewsReal-Whats-the-REAL-Reason-For-West-Russia-War-Over-Ukraine

Russia’s Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu told his French counterpart in a telephone call today, Sunday 23 October, that Moscow was concerned Ukraine could use a “dirty bomb,” the Russian defense ministry reported, which would lead to “further, uncontrolled escalation” in the war. In fact, Shoigu has since gone on to call up a half-dozen world leaders with the same warning. Coupled with increased US military presence on Ukraine's Romanian and Polish borders, and the targeting of a major dam with American HIMARS that could flood a swathe of southern Ukraine and kill thousands of civiliams, is an atrocity looming? NewsReal on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NewsReal-With-Joe-Niall-100490478966978 Joe Quinn on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JoeQuinnSOTT Niall Bradley on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Niall_Diarmuid Show Notes: https://www.sott.net/article/473520-NewsReal-Dirty-Nuke-False-Flag-US-Military-on-Stand-by-to-Fight-Russian-Troops-in-Event-of-Atrocity

There are increasing signs that the war in Ukraine may expand beyond that country (and newly-acquired Russian territory): the sabotage of the Nord Stream pipelines, the terror-bombing of the Kerch-Crimea bridge, the retaliatory Russian airstrikes against Ukrainian energy infrastructure, the ongoing delivery of NATO weapons to Ukraine, the fearmongering over nuclear Armageddon, and now the build-up of Russian forces in Belarus. With the caveat of course, thanks to US government wordplay in late 2021, that the definition of 'imminent' is more fluid these days, fighting between NATO and Russian forces could soon be taking place in Belarus. This week on NewsReal, Joe and Niall lay out an alternative direction to US-Russia escalation that doesn't involve mushroom clouds, but which nonetheless carries risks of further global socio-economic upheaval. *** CORRECTION *** At 12:30 we discuss the "regional grouping" of Belarusian and Russian forces inside Belarus this week, citing an RT report we erroneously read as saying "one hundred thousand" Russian troops had linked up with 70,000 Belarusian troops. In fact, the report quoted Belarus president Lukashenko as saying that "more than one thousand [1,000] Russian soldiers" would participate: https://www.rt.com/russia/564718-russian-troops-arrive-belarus/ Since then, Western media, again citing the Belarus government, reports that the Russian military contingent in Belarus will be 9,000-strong: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2022/10/16/russia-sending-9000-troops-ukraines-northern-border-kyiv-embassies/ *** NewsReal on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NewsReal-With-Joe-Niall-100490478966978 Joe Quinn on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JoeQuinnSOTT Niall Bradley on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Niall_Diarmuid Show Notes: https://www.sott.net/article/473245-NewsReal-Nuclear-Armageddon-Nah-But-Likely-Expansion-of-War-Beyond-Ukraine