Ukraine
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As sanctions fail and Russia advances, Western media changes its tune on Ukraine
Even as the collective West continues to insist – against all observable reality – that the conflict in Ukraine is going well for Kiev, major media outlets are becoming increasingly uneasy with the situation on the economic front. More and more observers are admitting that the embargoes imposed by the US and its allies aren’t… Continue reading
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Over Extending and Unbalancing Russia
Over Extending and Unbalancing Russia (OEAUR) is a freely accessible 2019 Rand Corporation policy paper that posits how the United States and her satellites can most efficiently destroy Russia mainly, as it happens, through militarizing Ukraine and escalating sanctions. Rand’s objective is to strangle Russia by throttling her at her choke points, a vulnerability Russia’s… Continue reading
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Ukraine News Links 1-2 June 2022
Thursday, 2 June 2022 • 13:00 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so please check back. If it gets updated, I usually insert the time on the line above. A lot of cross-posting usually indicates that the article is popular and… Continue reading
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Ukraine Bits: Casualty Numbers, Kampfgruppen, Territorial Defense Forces
Wednesday,1 June 2022 — Moon of Alabama Over the last month I had come to the conclusion that the Ukraine is losing about 500 men per day due to intense Russian artillery fire. That number may have been too low. Continue reading
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Rolling with It
A myriad of articles have been written concerning events in Eastern Europe with just as many pundits telling us where it will all end up. This article will examine why things are happening the way they are and for what reasons. Continue reading
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Ukraine News Links 31 May – 1 June 2022
Wednesday, 1 June 2022 • 20:00 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so please check back. If it gets updated, I usually insert the time on the line above. A lot of cross-posting usually indicates that the article is popular and… Continue reading
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DHS ‘Concerned’ Over Nazis Returning to US After Fighting in Ukraine. Why Isn’t the Media?
KIEV, UKRAINE (THE GRAYZONE) — As the United States undergoes a national mourning process over a spate of mass shootings, American white nationalists with documented histories of violence are attaining combat experience with advanced US-made weapons in a foreign proxy war. Continue reading
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Disquiet at Davos and the Unsaid Fear of Failure – The First Shoots of a U.S. Ukraine Shift
Klaus Schwab, passionate for Ukraine, essentially configured the World Economic Forum (WEF) to showcase Zelensky and to leverage the argument that Russia should be kicked out of the civilised world. Schwab’s target was the assembled crème de la crème of the world’s business leaders assembled there. Zelensky pitched big: “We want more sanctions and more weapons”; “All trade with… Continue reading
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Biden tweaks Ukraine narrative
The US President Joe Biden’s op-Ed in the New York Times on Tuesday on the Ukraine war starts with a bluff. He says President Vladimir Putin had thought Russia’s special operation would only last days. How Biden arrived at such an estimation is unclear. Like the US narrative on the war, it is largely presumptive. Continue reading
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Rape Allegations Against Russian Troops In Ukraine Were Fake
There is a first and still very low noise signal that the Zelenski regime in Kiev is coming apart. Six weeks ago there were suddenly many claims that Russian soldiers in Ukraine had raped people. Continue reading
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Ukraine: War Within the War: The Fight Over Land and Genetically Engineered Agriculture
Ten months before Russian troops poured into Ukraine, that country’s President Volodymyr Zelensky signed a bill into law authorizing the private sale of farmland, reversing a moratorium that had been in place since 2001. Continue reading
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Ukraine News Links 30-31 May 2022
Tuesday, 31 May 2022 • 18:00 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so please check back. If it gets updated, I usually insert the time on the line above. A lot of cross-posting usually indicates that the article is popular and… Continue reading
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The secret, US-financed Ukrainian military programs
In 2016, the United States committed to arming Ukraine to fight and win a war against Russia. Subsequently, the US Department of Defense organized a biological research program in Ukraine, and then huge amounts of nuclear fuel were secretly transferred to the country. These data change the interpretation of this war: it was not wanted… Continue reading
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Ukraine News Links 29-30 May 2022
Monday, 30 May 2022 • 19:30 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so please check back. If it gets updated, I usually insert the time on the line above. A lot of cross-posting usually indicates that the article is popular and… Continue reading
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Disquiet at Davos and the Unsaid Fear of Failure – The First Shoots of a U.S. Ukraine Shift
Klaus Schwab, passionate for Ukraine, essentially configured the World Economic Forum (WEF) to showcase Zelensky and to leverage the argument that Russia should be kicked out of the civilised world. Schwab’s target was the assembled crème de la crème of the world’s business leaders assembled there. Zelensky pitched big: “We want more sanctions and more weapons”; “All trade with… Continue reading
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Ukraine Bits: Russian Artillery – Counter Attacks – New Missile Systems
All main political parties in the United Kingdom have called for immediate passage in Parliament of new measures to fight “state threats,” which would restrict press freedom and threaten civil liberties. Continue reading
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Gruesome Goings-On
Since Russia’s Special Operation in the Ukraine began in February, a multitude of reports have been made regarding both mass graves as well as the manner in which the Ukrainian Armed Forces abandon their dead in battle. The investigation concerning mass graves is currently ongoing in the Ukraine, Donbass Republics and Russia, yet the callous… Continue reading
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Ukraine is a millstone around Europe’s neck
The fallout of the war in Ukraine over Europe is largely seen in terms of the uncertainties over the continent’s heavy dependence on Russian energy and the impact of it on the economies of the 27 EU member countries. Imposing restrictions on Russian oil has proven a much more complicated task than imagined previously. Continue reading
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Ukraine News Links 28-29 May 2022
Sunday, 29 May 2022 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so please check back. If it gets updated, I usually insert the time on the line above. A lot of cross-posting usually indicates that the article is popular and some links… Continue reading
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Operation Z
It is a little over three months since Russia began its Special Military Operation in the Ukraine and in that time, much has been written concerning both Russia and the Ukraine, but also the affects and effects that are being felt from further afield. Many articles have through necessity covered individual events and the minutiae… Continue reading