Russia
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Criminalizing Diplomacy: When War Is Peace
How was diplomacy criminalised as immoral, while war was celebrated as virtuous? Arguments that diplomacy meant “rewarding” Putin and “legitimising” Russian actions supported the objective of isolating Russia. As the Europeans weaponised diplomacy, war became the only solution and peace-building was outsourced to non-European powers. Continue reading
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Former Kremlin advisor says ‘best possible outcome is Ukraine’s total capitulation’ | BBC News
From the start of this war, Putin has demanded the “demilitarisation” of Ukraine, which is anathema to Kyiv and its allies. The BBC’s Russia Editor Steve Rosenberg has been speaking to political scientist and former Kremlin advisor Sergey Karaganov. Continue reading
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Russian Representative to the UN: Diplomacy with the US & the Ceasefire Proposal
Dmitri Polyanskiy, the First Deputy Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the United Nations, discusses diplomacy with the US. Polyanskiy argues that Russia is prepared to continue its military operation until its objectives are achieved through either military means or diplomacy. The US has accepted the key conditions in a peace agreement that must… Continue reading
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“Diplomacy” in a room full of mirrors: postmodernism as a cognitive pathological virus
Postmodernism, with its cognitive relativism and other pseudo-philosophical artifacts, is the place where the West has gone to die. The Western cognitive degenerative disease has entered its terminal stage, and the signs are everywhere. Continue reading
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Putin peels off the masks of the ceasefire kabuki
Putin will never sacrifice Russia’s “indivisibility of security” demands posed to Washington in December 2021 – and met with a no-response response. Continue reading
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Necropolitics, Ukraine, and the Trump-Brokered Negotiations
The Berlin Congress of 1878 — where Russia’s battlefield triumphs were undone in a diplomatic ambush orchestrated by Britain, Austria-Hungary, and a coldly calculating Bismarck — repeats itself today as Trump plays the “impartial peacemaker,” ensuring that Ukraine’s fate is determined not by war but by the necropolitical calculus of empire, where survival is rationed,… Continue reading
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Why is the rivalry between Russia and the West intensifying?
Rivalries between Russia and the West are on the rise, fueled by decades of mistrust, resentment, hybrid conflicts, and strategic divergences. What are the roots of this geopolitical tension? Continue reading
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Ukraine’s Kursk Collapse & Washington’s Rush to Freeze Conflict Under “Minsk 3”
As Ukraine’s Kursk operations collapse and wider fears grow regarding the viability of Ukraine’s armed forces, the US is rushing to freeze the conflict, create a European-occupied buffer zone in Ukraine, and buy time to rearm and reorganize Ukraine’s forces for the next round of fighting. Continue reading
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Ceasefire Without Political Settlement – Another Minsk Agreement?
I had the great pleasure of speaking with Ambassador Chas Freeman regarding the US-Ukraine deal for a 30-day ceasefire. The agreement does not provide any political solutions and would likely be used by the US and the Europeans to pump more weapons into Ukraine. Continue reading
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Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s interview to the US bloggers, March 12, 2025
Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s interview to the US bloggers Mario Nawfal, Larry C.Johnson and Andrew Napolitano, Moscow, March 12, 2025 Continue reading
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On Trump-Russia Negotiations: Is the US-Europe Division on Ukraine Real?
The West is likely dividing itself into smaller parties that can present potentially endless demands to keep the Ukraine-Russia conflict going, while enabling Donald Trump to pose as a peace-maker. Continue reading
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Rapid Collapse of Ukraine’s Kursk Area of Operation
This was the inevitable result of Russia’s strategy of attrition grinding down overextended Ukrainian forces in Kursk as well as weakening Ukrainian defenses across the rest of the line of contact; Continue reading
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The background of Ukrainian-American talks in Jeddah: Koshchei’s needle of the Kiev junta
Everything that is happening now in Saudi Arabia can be assessed from different process levels and several angles. The deepest cut is the general confrontation of globalist elites and the American Deep State with the national forces that came to power in the USA. The next level is the pushing through of their goals by… Continue reading
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Europe has gone mad
The European elites, radicalized and out of touch, are terrifying their populations with daily doses of war rhetoric and fear-mongering about Russia. Continue reading
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Pepe Escobar: Putin Drops Kursk BOMBSHELL, Trump’s Ukraine Aid LEAK Stuns NATO as Syria Chaos Erupts
Geopolitical analyst and journalist Pepe Escobar reveals why Russia’s advance keeps on rolling as Ukraine nears collapse in Kursk despite renewed US-Russia talks. As the endgame nears, this stream analyzes what rapidly changing developments in Ukraine and beyond mean for the multipolar world. Continue reading
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Ukraine’s forces surrounded in Kursk
▪️Russia has been steadily grinding down Ukrainian positions/shrinking their area of operation in Russia’s Kursk region since the senseless incursion began; Continue reading
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Putin’s Endgame in Ukraine
I had the great pleasure to discuss with Judge Napolitano the efforts by Trump to pressure Zelensky into starting negotiations to end the war. Trump is challenging the legitimacy of Zelensky and even cutting military support to push him to the negotiation table. It is very possible that Trump will also start to mount pressure… Continue reading
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US puts firewall to protect Ukraine deal with Russia
The verbal shootout at the Oval Office last Friday brought out President Vladimir Zelensky’s fury that Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin are very close to a deal on Ukraine, while the conclave in Lancashire House in London on Sunday involving 18 European leaders messaged that Zelensky is in good company. Continue reading
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Baltic/Black Sea Power Games and Red Lines Intersect in a “Strange War”
Strategic waters: Sweden and Finland’s accession to NATO positioned Russia as the only non-member bordering the Baltic Sea. No one ever lost money betting on the batshit crazy “policies” of the ferociously yapping Baltic chihuahuas. Their latest power play of sorts is a drive to turn the Baltic Sea into a NATO lake. Continue reading
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