Need to Know News (17 March 2022) with Joe Olson and Carl Herman

The President of Ukraine wants the US and NATO to come to the defense of his nation, even though it is not a member of NATO and Putin has made it clear that Russia cannot stand for Ukraine becoming a NATO nation. Meanwhile, while the slings and arrows are being directed at Putin, other reports have it that Ukraine is committing atrocities and blaming Russia, which naive members of Congress are buying, hook, line and sinker. Saudi Arabia contemplates selling oil to China, not in US dollars, but in Chinese yuan, which spells further doom for the petrodollar, which as been the basis for its value since Nixon took the US off the gold standard. Mike Adams observes that taunting Putin by US and NATO is not a good idea, since Russian technology is far more advanced than Allied and the Russians could take us out and still survive--contrary to the old MAD scenario, which is no longer valid. The CEO of a German insurance company has been fired after observing that the publicly reported rates of adverse effects are far lower than the company is experiencing. The remnants of 9/11 are so partial and fragmented that they cannot have been the effect of a gravity-driven collapse, where the Twin Towers were converted into millions of cubic yards of very fine dust by nuclear devices. And new proof that Sandy Hook was staged has emerged from perhaps the single most important photo to have emerged from the scene.