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A Third Way to end the war in Ukraine
In an unguarded moment, perhaps, ex-UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson blurted out recently in an interview that the ultranationalist elements who rule the roost in Kiev are a formidable obstacle to ending the war in Ukraine. For Johnson, this might be a blame game to absolve himself of responsibility, given his own dubious role as then… 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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A verbal and gestural combat sport at the Oval Office: for what are the results?
The conversation in the Oval Office turned out to be a deal-breaker for Ukraine, an embarrassment and the expulsion of the Kiev politician from the White House. Continue reading
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Unsustainable Spoilt Brat Diplomacy meets Inglorious End
In a botched February 28th meeting, Trump and Zelensky engaged in what can be described as spoilt brat diplomacy, as each hoped to get the best of the other, with no room for concessions or compromises. 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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‘One Less Traitor’: Zelensky Oversees Campaign of Assassination, Kidnapping and Torture of Political Opposition
While claiming to defend democracy, Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky has outlawed his opposition, ordered his rivals’ arrest, and presided over the disappearance and assassination of dissidents across the country. Continue reading
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Zelensky’s Senior Advisor Confirmed The Russian Defense Ministry’s Military Assessment
Those who sincerely aspire to pierce through the fog of war and thus obtain the most accurate assessment of this conflict possible within the limits imposed upon foreign observers like themselves should deeply reflect upon what Alexey Arestovich just revealed. He single-handedly sacrificed one of the bases upon which his US-led Western allies built their… Continue reading
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Zelensky rubbishes Biden’s war on Russia
What was the need for all that happened in the period since mid-December when Russia transmitted to Washington its demands for security guarantee? This question will haunt US president Joe Biden long after he retires from public life. The foreign policy legacy of his presidency and the reputation of this much-vaunted 80-year old politician with… Continue reading
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Zelensky And The Fascists: “He will hang on some tree on Khreshchatyk”
At the Grayzone Alexander Rubinstein and Max Blumenthal have published a piece about Zelensky’s turn from the peacemaker he had promised to be before his election to an active supporter of the fascist ‘ultranational’ militia. They pin that turn to a frontline meeting between Zelensky and militia fighters in the fall of 2019: Continue reading
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The Man Who Sold Ukraine
Volodymyr Zelensky is the current President of Ukraine. He was elected in a landslide victory in 2019 on the promise of easing tensions with Russia and resolving the crisis in the breakaway republics in east Ukraine. He has made no attempt to keep his word on either issue. Instead, he has greatly exacerbated Ukraine’s internal… Continue reading
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From the Black Sea to the East Med, do not poke The Russian Bear
This is what happens when a bunch of ragged hyenas, jackals and tiny rodents poke The Bear: a new geopolitical order is born in breathtaking speed. From a dramatic meeting of the Russian Security Council to a history lesson delivered by President Putin and the subsequent birth of the Baby Twins – the People’s Republics of Donetsk… Continue reading
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Ukraine’s hybrid war is mutating
The first signs of the dual track in Russia’s hybrid war in Ukraine have surfaced. By Thursday evening, the Kremlin held out an olive branch to the Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelensky. Succinctly put, President Vladimir Putin expressed his preparedness to engage in discussions with his Ukrainian counterpart with a focus on obtaining a guarantee of neutral… Continue reading
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Disarming Ukraine – Day 1
Like me and many other analysts Mearsheimer did not expect that a Russian move into the Ukraine would happen. Why the Russian government finally decided to take that step is not clear to me. I believe that Zelensky’s lose talk about acquiring nuclear weapons for the Ukraine was one of the decisive factors. Who told… Continue reading
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Zelensky’s Munich Speech Implies That Ukraine’s Becoming Increasingly Desperate
The entire Ukrainian state structure is extremely worried about being abandoned by the US-led West after their American patron beat the drums of war, accelerated Ukraine’s economic collapse, then literally fled in the face of their fearmongered ‘Russian invasion’. Continue reading
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Canada Support Ukraine’s Self-determination And Independence … As Long As It Does As Canada Says
[T]he U.S. is still claiming that Russia intends to attack the Ukraine any moment now. But the Ukrainian President Vlodymyr Zelensky publicly disagrees with that false evaluation. He sees no war coming and wants to avoid one as much as possible. That might mean that he has to be removed before a war can be… Continue reading
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Pictures of a Ukrainian Dream
Leaked info on the closed-door meeting between Blinken and Comedian-in-Charge Zelensky is no less than incandescent. Blinken seemed to have read a no holds barred riot act. Continue reading
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Ukrainegate: Is It Waterloo for Trump, or for America’s ‘News’-Media? By Eric Zuesse
This article contradicts US-and-allied accounts of events and is therefore linked to documentation at each allegation which is particularly at variance with those ‘mainstream’ accounts (or otherwise not sufficiently publicized in The West). Continue reading
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Defending the Rule of Law….with HRC in the Wings Renée Parsons
It has been more than fascinating if not totally absorbing to watch the chain of events unfold over recent days with the Democrats in open cahoots with the CIA. Their joint goal is to remove the implacable Donald Trump from the Oval Office as two-time former Dem presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has suddenly emerged from… Continue reading
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Look who’s not laughing! By Dimitri Orlov
When everything is routine, world leaders generally manage to remain poker-faced or (in the case of American politicians) grinning stupidly with a vacant-eyed stare. But when things get interesting all sorts of ticks and grimaces and strange gestures and postures start showing up. And when you see one of the “world leaders” (in quotes because… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 