There Is No Sensation.

 Western Allies after WW II have been enamored with Nazis and as a result cooperated in saving very many of those under different pretexts. Enough to take a look at US Army History Department where Wehrmacht "victorious" marshals and generals wrote "history" and operational "art" for the US Army and then the defensive doctrine for NATO as a whole. Now this is just another footnote: 

Blaise Metreweli, who is scheduled to take over leadership of the UK’s foreign intelligence service (MI6) in October, is the granddaughter of a Nazi collaborator who oversaw atrocities in occupied Ukraine during World War Two, the Daily Mail has revealed.

Of course, British rushed to print a classic "anti-Nazi" trope.

Ms. Metreweli cannot be judged for the sins of her grandfather,” the paper stated. “One of our nation’s most formidable intelligence operatives, she has served her country with distinction on dangerous operations for MI6 across Europe and the Middle East for two decades.”

Well, MI6 "dangerous operations" are primarily those of terrorism and false flags and killing Skripal's cat and, likely, their family. So the backgrounds of Metreweli and MI6 are match made in hell, but then again--this is UK. 

British parliament is one step behind Canada in cheering for Nazis.

But that is not what really matters today. Recall all kinds of BS from no less than tabloids such as WSJ or The Economist et al that Russia is spending up to 40% of her GDP on SMO and that "Putin's regime" is about to be overthrown by the crowds of poor and hungry Russians. Yes, that's also the level of West's intel services and military "grasp" of all things real. Well, here is Vladimir Putin verbatim today:

Путин заявил, что расходы на оборону достигли 13,5 трлн рублей, что составляет 6,3% ВВП, передает РИА «Новости». По его словам, общий объем ВВП страны составляет 223 трлн рублей, а доля оборонных расходов оценивается как значительная. «Мы заплатили за это инфляцией, но мы сейчас боремся с этой инфляцией», – сказал российский лидер. Он также заявил, что власти России целенаправленно идут к тому, чтобы обеспечить «мягкую посадку» экономики. Президент добавил, что государство здраво оценивает текущую экономическую ситуацию. Ранее Путин назвал расходы на оборону в России некритичными.

Translation: Putin said that defense spending has reached 13.5 trillion rubles, which is 6.3% of GDP, RIA Novosti reports. According to him, the country's total GDP is 223 trillion rubles, and the share of defense spending is estimated as significant. "We paid for this with inflation, but we are now fighting this inflation," the Russian leader said. He also said that the Russian authorities are purposefully moving to ensure a "soft landing" for the economy. The president added that the state is sensibly assessing the current economic situation. Earlier, Putin called defense spending in Russia non-critical.

So, here is your "revelation" about why Russia can do it as long as she needs to (for years). But then again, where will all those Western "strategists", "economists" and "military analysts" find better sinecures than in US and UK "think tanks" for retards, because most of them will not be allowed to fix plumbing in the house, with plumbing being a really complex and in-demand skill.

For Your Consideration.

A piece not by some journo but actually by a professional geologist and oil extraction expert, Arthur Berman, who, in his latest piece, makes two crucial observations which fall well in line with a number of theses about US elites I, together with number of others, continue to make for years. 

Most people, policy makers and economists are energy blind and cannot, therefore, fully grasp the gravity or the consequences of what is happening.

Bingo! I can add, I wrote two books on that (yes, I will continue to repeat it to drive point home), they are also military blind, geopolitics blind and real economy blind. Then, Berman commits a sacrilege by stating that:

                            Energy is the Economy 

And if that wasn't enough to spook all kinds of market analysts who think that stock prices are real economy and that bread grows on trees and iPhones are pinnacle of the technology, Berman delivers a knockout punch:

Gross domestic product (GDP) is proportional to oil consumption (Figure 4). That’s because oil is the economy. Every aspect of production and use of goods and services requires burning fossil energy. There are approximately 4.5 years of human labor in a barrel of oil (N. J. Hagens, personal communication and The Oil Drum). No other energy source comes close to that level of energy density.

I can add even more, do not forget electric energy, it matters together with oil. And, as we know, the electric energy can be produced without oil, such as hydro and nuclear. So, while statement on proportionality is correct, oil is one OF, not the only, metrics of energy consumption in relation to GDP. Here is, my friends, just one (out of very many) metric from World Bank (from 2011 no less) which shows an "adjusted" relations of GDPs when consumption of energy is considered (in this case per capita):

Speaks volumes, doesn't it? Especially when one considers this truism that Energy IS Economy. Of course for 2020 this updated overall (gross, not per capita) consumption data speaks volumes:

Which gives an idea of the REAL relation of REAL economies globally per their actual sizes. It also gives the insight into ACTUAL stakes of the geopolitical realignment by singling out the elite group of leading industrial and military powers who are reshuffling themselves. It also gives a good insight into why Germany or France are not global but regional players and why they will not be able to form serious military-economic-political block of global import alone. So really simple, so... realistic. Anyhow, consider this piece by Berman for your reading.