Ukraine
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Trump-Zelensky Drama a Distraction from US-EU “Division of Labor”
Sunday, 2 March 2025 — The New Atlas New Atlas LIVE is a weekly stream for discussing current events, connecting with the New Atlas community, and more. Q&A is open the entire time, please write “QUESTION” or “Q” and then your question so we can more easily spot it. Continue reading
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Trump plans to make Ukraine a US economic colony, exploiting its critical minerals
Donald Trump’s fight with Zelensky reflects how the US treats Ukraine as a colony. He demands control of its rare earths & critical minerals, to weaken China, re-industrialize, and build tech products Continue reading
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What’s behind Keir Starmer’s latest defense spending boost?
Who is Sir Keir Starmer and whose interests does he represent? Even his strongest supporters from the West are beginning to notice that there hasn’t been one single policy strategy since he became British PM, which is for the actual British public themselves. Traditionally one tends to think of Labour PMs wanting to make a… Continue reading
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Zero for Zelensky
Volodymyr Zelensky showed up at the White House, in his best attire, which even President Trump had to note and admire, and decided that it would be the height of diplomacy to get into a verbal fight with both the President and Vice-President of the United States—for those who might not now remember, the US… Continue reading
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Trump takes on the ‘collective west’
The dramatic scene in the Oval Office on Friday evening signals that President Donald Trump is decoupling the US from the ‘forever war’ in Ukraine that his predecessor Joe Biden left behind. The war is poised to end with a whimper, but its ‘butterfly effect’ on our incredibly complex, deeply interconnected world will define European… Continue reading
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Trump gives Zelensky bum’s rush and flushes the European ploy to escalate war against Russia
The Europeans are covering their desire for continuing the proxy war with a belated apparent concern for making peace and backing Trump’s diplomacy. Continue reading
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Trump – Zelensky
Well – just when you thought that things could not get any more dramatic, on Friday 28th February the White House was transformed into a Stage as Donald J used the occasion of Zelensky’s visit to strip the Emperor of his clothes in front of the whole world. I am not sure how much of… Continue reading
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How to assess the U.S.-Ukraine mineral deal to be reached?
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky has confirmed that his country and the U.S. have reached consensus on a deal to co-set up an “investment fund” for Ukraine’s reconstruction. Ukraine would contribute 50 percent of future proceeds from state-owned mineral resources, oil and gas to the fund, and the fund would then invest in projects in Ukraine… Continue reading
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RAIDING UKRAINE: Trump’s Plan to Plunder Resources, End the War, and Isolate China
The useful thing about President Trump is that he has an ability to package the dismantling of the United States Empire as the building of the American Empire. His administration’s decision to end the war in Ukraine is a transparent attempt to raid Ukrainian mineral resources, snap the European Union back into line, and draw… Continue reading
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Three years of a cruel and destructive NATO proxy war in Ukraine
Dmitri Kovalevich examines how the West sabotaged the Minsk 2 agreement, pushing Ukraine toward war, dictatorship, and political repression. The end of February marks three years since the start of Russia’s special military operation in Ukraine and 11 years since the ‘Euromaidan’ coup of February 2014. The coup was the main cause of the current… Continue reading
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By Drones And Mines – The British Naval War Against Russia In Ukraine
Since at least 2014 The United Kingdom has been a major participant in NATO’s proxy war against Russia. During the hot phase of the war it has directed a drone and missile campaign in the Black Sea. It is likely responsible for current attacks against Russia related sea transport. It is developing new naval drones… Continue reading
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Ben Norton Joins TONIGHT Feb 19th 9pm eastern 6pm pacific!
Wednesday, 19 February 2025 — Chronicles of Haiphong We talk the Truth About Trump’s Ukraine Peace Offensive and debate whether it’s a trap for Russia, China & the multipolar world as we review what’s transpired amid rapidly changing global conditions. Continue reading
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Europe gets an anatomy lesson
Vance’s speech was a bombshell. Left them weeping, it did. Gotta say though, if Zelensky is where you find your “values and principals” these days, I think you should look somewhere else. We can only hope that Vance’s lecture has killed this sanctimonious and hypocritical values talk. Or reduced it a bit, anyway. Continue reading
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Secret terror blueprints for US NSC to ‘help Ukraine resist’ exposed
Newly-leaked documents reveal a crew of military academics pitching the US National Security Council a series of extreme strategies for Ukraine, from IED’s inspired by Iraqi insurgents to sabotaging Russia’s infrastructure to propaganda “from ISIS’ playbook.” Continue reading
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Black day for Ukrainian nationalism: USAID programs suspension hits Kiev war regime hard
The suspension of USAID funding to Ukraine by the new U.S. administration has exposed the extent of Western financial influence on Ukrainian media, government, and nationalist movements. Continue reading
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Eurasia Rising
I was interviewed by Ab Gietelink about my book “The Ukraine War and the Eurasian World Order”. NATO expansionism was an important component of liberal hegemony as it was intended to cement the global primacy of the Political West as the foundation for a liberal democratic peace. Instead, it dismantled the pan-European security architecture and… Continue reading
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Krynky: Very British Military Cataclysm
In November 2024, previously US-funded Ukrainska Pravda published a little-noticed investigation, documenting in frequently disquieting detail the catastrophic failure of Kiev’s long-running effort to capture the village of Krynky in Russian-controlled Kherson, October 2023 – June 2024. That it was to all intents and purposes a British operation, from deranged inception to miserable conclusion, was… Continue reading
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CIA/NYT Remove North Korean Troops From Ukraine’s Front Line
After three months of intense propaganda the CIA decided to bury an Ukrainian disinformation scheme and announced to ‘pull North Korean troops off the front line’. Continue reading
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Israeli general on secret trip to London questioned over war crimes
Exclusive: A high-ranking Israeli military delegation tried to quietly visit London today but was quizzed outside the Ministry of Defence by Declassified. Continue reading
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It’s Official: US Abandoning Ukraine
On January 19th, TIME magazine published an astonishing article, amply confirming what dissident, anti-war academics, activists, journalists and researchers have argued for a decade. The US always intended to abandon Ukraine after setting up the country for proxy war with Russia, and never had any desire or intention to assist Kiev in defeating Moscow in… Continue reading