Russia
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History of World War II: Russia’s Defeat of Nazi Germany (1941-1945)
In 2022 we commemorate the 80th anniversary of the Battle of Stalingrad, which marked a turning point in the war against German fascism. Stalingrad represented the first nail in the coffin of the German Wehrmacht. Russia’s war against German fascism lasted four years and took an immense toll on the people of the Soviet Union… Continue reading
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Showdown at “Credibility Gulch” in Ukraine War
Back in the 1960s and 1970s during the war in Vietnam, everybody knew about the “credibility gap,” which morphed into Credibility Gulch as the official story stretched ever-farther from reality. Continue reading
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The Donbass people’s victory against Ukrainian fascism is inspiration for liberation movements worldwide
What’s been occurring in Ukraine throughout the last eight years should be closely studied by communists in the United States, Canada, and the other settler-colonial countries. Because it’s a 21st century example of what happens when oppressed nationalities are pushed to a breaking point by fascist violence, then successfully fight back to win their self-determination.… Continue reading
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Sergey Glazyev: For those who still don’t understand
A special military operation (SVO) revealed a plan prepared in advance by the US power and financial elite to seize power in Russia. It includes the following components and stages. Continue reading
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The Great Currency Reset and Why Europe Is Trapped
There’s a lot of news flying around about the changes happening in global currency trading. From “Gas for Rubles” to “What the Hell is Going on With the Yen?” there are a lot of questions and very few answers as to what it all means and whose on which side of the divide. Continue reading
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On Lavrov’s Spat With Israel – Who Is Right?
Wednesday, 4 May 2022 — Moon of Alabama Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov is in a spat with Israel over its support for Nazis militia in the Ukraine. The immediate cause is a passage in an interview Lavrov had with the Italian TV network Mediaset: Continue reading
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This Time, NATO Better Take Putin’s Ukraine Warnings Seriously
In one of the great foreign policy blunders of modern times, U.S. and European leaders repeatedly disregarded Vladimir Putin’s warnings that Russia would never tolerate Ukraine becoming a NATO military asset. Because of resistance from the French and German governments (which had as much to do with Ukraine’s chronic corruption as with concerns about Russia’s… Continue reading
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A Marshall plan for Ukraine?
The Great Recession of 2008-9 was a turning point for the US global strategy. Up to then, the general aim was to ‘engage’ important economic powers like Russia and China. Throughout the 1990s onwards, the US government pressed for the opening-up of their economies to multi-nationals and banks from the ‘West’. These economies would then… Continue reading
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Russian Ops in Ukraine Update: Pentagon Sends Old Vehicles & Ukraine’s True Colors Begin to Show
1. US continues sending old equipment including M113 tracked armored transports; 2. US is not discussing sending US-made air defense systems – likely because it is so impractical; 3. Pentagon is providing crash-courses, unable to replace the loss of trained personnel created over the last 8 years; 4. US narrative continues to center on Russian… Continue reading
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Ukraine’s Army Is In Very Bad Shape – More Fighting Will Only Destroy It
Tuesday, 3 May 2022 — Moon of Alabama The French news agency AFP has published a report by Daphne Rousseau from near the Ukrainian frontline. It allows us to gain some realistic view of the state of the Ukrainian armed forces. Exhausted Ukrainian soldiers return from eastern front Continue reading
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India, Germany cogitate on Ukraine
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s short visit to Germany pegged on the Indian-German Intergovernmental Commission meeting in Berlin on Monday inevitably came to focus on the Ukraine crisis. The western media would have loved to grill Modi on India’s reluctance to criticise Russia’s special military operation in Ukraine. But German hosts thoughtfully skipped the customary Q&A… Continue reading
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Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s interview with Mediaset, Italian television network, Moscow, May 1, 2022
Question: After your statement about the possibility of a nuclear war, of the third world war, the whole world is asking: is there a real risk of that happening? Continue reading
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Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s interview with the Xinhua News Agency (China), April 30, 2022
Question: What do you think is at the root of the Ukrainian crisis? What can the international community do to solve this problem? Continue reading
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Empire of Lies Eager to Receive Mr. Sarmat’s Business Card
Amidst the propaganda dementia cum acute cognitive dissonance overdrive across the whole NATOstan sphere, the only antidote is served by sparse voices of reason, which happen to be Russian, thus silenced and/or dismissed. Continue reading
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Russia’s Gazprom HALTS gas flows to Poland and Germany; Europe in PANIC as rolling blackouts are inevitable unless Europe finds RUBLES
In the bombshell news of the week, Russia’s Gazprom natural gas exporter, exactly has promised, is shutting off gas flows to nations whose gas importers refuse to pay for gas in Rubles. Continue reading
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Politico: “Germany approves tank sales to Ukraine, bowing to pressure”
Did Germany really decide to deliver tanks to the Ukraine? Continue reading
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Putin warns the US to back off in Ukraine
The Western narrative of the two-month old war in Ukraine imbued with the rhetoric of “democracy versus autocracy,” has dramatically changed with the assertion by the US Secretary of Defence Lloyd Austin at a news conference in Poland Monday following his and Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s trip to Kiev, that Washington wants to “to… Continue reading
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US recruits Israel against Russia
For more than one reason, the US President Joe Biden’s call with Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett on Sunday is hugely consequential. This has been Biden’s second phone conversation with Bennett in four weeks. On March 30 Biden called to express his “deepest condolences” following the terrorist attacks that killed 11 people in three Israeli… Continue reading
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A Recap Of The War In Ukraine – by Gonzalo Lira
Tuesday, 26 April 2022 — Moon of Alabama Gonzalo Lira just delivered a decent recap of the war in Ukraine. Gonzalo Lira @GonzaloLira1968 – 10:28 UTC · Apr 26, 2022 Quick recap for those who haven’t followed what’s been going on in Ukraine but want to understand: 02/24: The Russians invaded from the south, south-east,… Continue reading
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Russia Releases Documents on US-Funded Bio-Weapons, Hunter Biden Exposed
The Russian Defense Ministry has exacerbated an already flared scandal of Hunter Biden‘s connection and correspondence with employees of the Defense Threat Reduction Agency and Pentagon contractors in Ukraine. This comes after Putin had already demanded Washington expose its biological activities in Ukraine, which have been threatening Russia and Europe inclusively. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 