In this week's NewsReal, Joe and Niall discuss the almighty tensions building between the US and Russia over Ukraine, explaining that the key to understanding 'why this, and why now?' lies in American paranoia about increasing Russian economic and ideological influence in Europe as a whole. The Americans and the British have been pumping weapons and 'advisors' into Ukraine for the last seven years, apparently with a view to helping Kiev recapture' the breakaway Donbass republics and Crimea, thereby forcing a military response from Russia, and providing the 'justification' the Anglo-Americans seek to, effectively, ban Russia from global trade - with disastrous economic ramifications for Europe and beyond. Will war break out in some form? It's possible, and it depends on just how far beyond the pale the US regime has become. The greater threat to us all, however, is the global economic FUBAR that will result from the US regime pulling what amounts to a 'financial Samson Option' that - it hopes - will 'reset' the world back to 1945, when the USA stood tall amid an economic wasteland... 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/463539-NewsReal-Ukraine-Gambit-US-Attempting-to-Destroy-Russia

The mass evacuation operation of several tens of thousands of Westerners and Afghans was brutally interrupted this week by what the media reported was a 'double-suicide bombing'. 13 US soldiers, an unknown number of Taliban, and dozens of Afghan civilians were killed. A group of dubious origin named 'ISIS-K', Western media reported, claimed responsibility for the attack. But the US military has since clarified that just one, not two, explosions took place, while some local eyewitness reports claim the majority of civilian casualties were in fact shot dead by US soldiers. On this NewsReal, Joe and Niall take a closer look at what happened in Kabul Airport, and discuss what the atrocity portends for Afghanistan. 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