Russia
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Ukraine – Putin On Why The War Started, Failed Attempts On Snake Island, Other Issues
Monday, 9 May 2022 — Moon of Alabama Updates below (17:15 UTC) It is Victory Day. As Ernest Hemingway said: Anyone who loves freedom owes such a debt to the Red Army that it can never be repaid. The most important part of Vladimir Putin’s speech to the Victory Parade on the Red Square is the narrative that explains… Continue reading
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Mariupol – Ukrainian soldiers surrounded in Azovstal reveal their faces as terrorists and hostage-takers
After shelling the new firing positions that Ukrainian soldiers had set up in Azovstal during the evacuation of civilians held in the factory, the Russian army organized a new ceasefire and new humanitarian corridors over three days to continue the evacuation. But instead of letting out the civilians still in the Azovstal basement, the Ukrainian… Continue reading
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Watch: Mariupol – The Truth about the Azovstal Evacuees !!
Sunday, 8 May 2022 — Youtube Continue reading
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Is Satan 11 a Game Changer?
Although Satan 11, Russia’s latest super‐heavy RS-28 Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), packs a lethal punch, it is not of itself a game changer. Because leopards don’t change their spots, NATO won’t stop its war mongering until it is defanged, disarmed and demobbed. Though Satan 11 is necessary to deter NATO’s aggression, it is not nearly… Continue reading
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Masha and Mishka
The aim of children’s entertainment, it seems, should be to engender eternal hatred of all NATO’s enemies and Masha and Mishka must be no exception to that. Continue reading
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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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