For now, links to FIVE reports: from Agence France-Presse, the Cradle, and the Associated Press; others or at least headlines are accessible by clicking on their names or initials as highlighted. Also, the beginnings of a commentary from this blog. (Scroll down for UKRAINE 3-26-26, and up or down for IRAN and MEDIA.) — MCM

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Russia reports fire in strike on major Baltic port. From AFP. A drone strike triggered a fire at Russia’s Baltic port of Ust-Luga, the regional governor said this reporting new damage at the major exporting hub hit for a second time in days. READ MORE . . .

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FROM MARCH 28  UAE, Qatar sign defense cooperation deals with Ukraine’s Zelensky. From the Cradle. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and UAE President Mohammed bin Zayed signed an agreement on Saturday to cooperate in the areas of security and defense, including anti-drone defense, amid the ongoing U.S.-Israeli war on Iran. READ MORE . . . Click HERE and HERE for earlier reports from AP.

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FROM MARCH 28  Russian strikes on Ukraine kill 4, damaging port and maternity hospital. From AFP. Russian air attacks across Ukraine early Saturday killed at least four people and damaged critical infrastructure including a port and a maternity hospital, authorities said, as Russia pressed on with its war with Ukraine. READ MORE . . .

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‘The whole ball of wax.’ Early draft from x-ma911truthwalk.com.

Several of the wars dominating international news are one and the same. It has probably been in the pipeline in one way or another since well before Donald Trump’s debut on “The Apprentice” or Joe Biden’s time in the U.S. Senate or Vladimir Putin’s as deputy mayor of St. Petersburg.

In the pipeline means its components are plotted over decades in Western government agencies and “think tanks” and international banks (lenders).

Media and academia participation is key. Success depends on it by mainstream and “alternative” or “independent” news organizations, authors, book publishing houses, distributors and retailers, and colleges and universities.

Joe “I am a Zionist” Biden called the state of Israel “our battleship” in the Middle East. Some see the U.S. as Israel’s there. In any case battleships and aircraft carriers are more vulnerable these days, and Israel’s involvement and Washington’s have been intertwined in adventures worldwide.

In his second re-election campaign Trump called the Russia-Ukraine conflict “Biden’s war” while knowing it was Washington’s, Wall Street’s and international banks’ among others’. The people who notice that military contractors’ or subcontractors’ plants are situated in every Congressional district are right on the money.

The war is systemic. It’s the Republicans’ and the Democrats’. It is red and blue. It is less the war of “independents” and non-voters, and so less purple. It is the child of most elected officials and their funders at the state, county and local levels as well; and of much of organized labor and organized religion. You can vote if you want to, but your choices in elections don’t matter when it comes to the war.

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