Tensions In Ukraine Heighten After Bridge Attack, Maryland Court Hears Case on African Cemetery, Why China Is Winning The Tech War.
In this episode of By Any Means Necessary, hosts Sean Blackmon and Jacquie Luqman are joined by Sputnik News journalist and correspondent Wyatt Reed to discuss the bombing of the Crimea bridge and other escalations in the NATO proxy conflict in Ukraine, an on-the-ground update on an artillery attack in Donetsk that Wyatt personally witnessed and reported on, the US and NATO’s complicity in scuttling peace negotiations and continuing the conflict to fight down to the last Ukrainian, and why a movement is needed to demand peace from the US and NATO powers.
In the second segment, Sean and Jacquie are joined by Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo, president of the Bethesda African Cemetery Coalition to discuss an update on the struggle to preserve the Moses Macedonia African Cemetery in Bethesda, Maryland, how the struggle to preserve the cemetery connects to the original exploitation and sale of enslaved Africans, and the effort by Bethesda officials to hide the crimes of slavery and murder that took place on Bethesda plantations.
In the third segment, Sean and Jacquie are joined by technologist Chris Garaffa, co-host of the CovertAction Bulletin podcast to discuss the tech war between the US and China and how China is winning it, how China’s model of development and economic planning has encouraged cooperation and the creation of new technologies, how a new EU law could force Apple to change how Iphones are charged and how corporations have fought against charger standardization, and Twitter’s pursuit of networks and encouragement of sharing links to tweets rather than sharing screenshots.
Biden Warned Zelensky Against 'Ungrateful' Complaints on Insufficient Aid, Reports Say
US President Joe Biden has warned Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky that it would be difficult to keep asking the US Congress for money if he continued to complain about not enough assistance, the Washington Post reported, citing a former White House official.
Since the start of hostilities in February, Zelensky and his officials have repeatedly called on the United States and other Western countries to allocate more financial and military assistance, to send additional weapons and impose harsher sanctions against Russia, despite the fact that Washington has already been sending unprecedented amounts of aid to Ukraine, the newspaper reported.
Biden and Zelensky have spoken regularly over the phone and at some point, the US president told his Ukrainian counterpart to stop saying that the support is not enough, as he appears to be "ungrateful," according to the former White House official.
US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said on Tuesday that the US will begin to disburse a sum of $4.5 billion that Congress allocated in direct budget support for Ukraine in the coming weeks. In early October, the White House said that Biden signed legislation that contained $12.4 billion in new aid for Kiev, including $4.5 billion in economic assistance to the Ukrainian government.
Russia has repeatedly warned Washington and its allies that sending weapons to Ukraine will only result in an escalation of the crisis.
EU Foreign Policy Chief Admits Possibility NATO Failed to Keep Promises to Russia
NATO could have promised Russia in the past but failed not to expand eastward, but it is still not an excuse for Moscow's escalation of tensions around Ukraine today, EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said.
The official noted that many people, including his friends, justify the conflict in Ukraine, arguing that NATO and the European Union did not keep their promises to Russia.
"It is possible. It is history. None of it justifies present events," Borrell said at an event in Madrid.
Russia has been a consistent critic of NATO’s expansion following the collapse of the Soviet Union, with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov saying in April that it has nothing to do with the fulfillment of statutory goals and is geared toward strengthening and perpetuating the unipolar world. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said in early April that further expansion of the alliance eastward was aggressive in nature and would not make Europe more secure.
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