Russia
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Ukraine War and Media Manipulation, who controls what you see?
I was on SaltCubeAnalytics to discuss why narrative control and propaganda are key components of war. Framing conflicts as a struggle between good and evil is beneficial to mobilise public support for war, although it makes it near impossible to accept a workable peace. Continue reading
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From East to West: A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall
Let’s start with that phone call. The Kremlin readout is quite sober – but it does reveal a few nuggets. There is no comprehensive deal – yet – between Moscow and Washington. Far from it: we are just in the initial tentative stage of talking and talking about several interconnected dossiers. Continue reading
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Ukraine’s Kursk Collapse & Washington’s Rush to Freeze Conflict Under “Minsk 3”
13 March 2025 — The New Atlas 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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Putin-Trump Phone Chat #2
Here’s the straight edited translation of the Kremlin’s readout of the second publicly acknowledged phone chat between Presidents Putin and Trump. One publication says the call lasted three hours: Continue reading
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European ‘Peacekeepers’ to Ukraine?
The Times reported that European nations are preparing to deploy over 10,000 troops to Ukraine as part of a “peacekeeping mission,” with the United Kingdom and France contributing a major share. Continue reading
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Boots-on-Ground Theater Conceals Raging Impotence of Toothless Euro-Prats
We’re starting to glimpse the contours of the European deep state plan to stop Russia from taking over Ukraine. Macron and Starmer are now desperate to push through the ‘boots-on-ground’ initiative in a deliberately obfuscating way. They are haranguing about it like it’s something meant to occur only at such time that an agreement on… Continue reading
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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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