It makes sense for Putin to cash out now rather than wait and let NATO become more entrenched in Ukraine. I mean from a strategic standpoint this was also a very fragile time with a delicate global recovery which may factor into it also. These are not the […]
It’s scary to think that the Pentagon is more moderate than the media about this war. 2022 is gonna be a hell of a ride.
Ryan Grim and Robby Soave discuss the state of peace negotiations between Ukraine and Russia.
Krystal and Saagar break down the major difference in polling on no fly zones when Americans are given the definition of what it is compared to when they are simply asked about supporting it
Remember when the British media interviewed the US ambassadors when America invaded Iraq and Afghanistan and Syria and was drone bombing civilians??? Me either…
Saagar and Marshall Kosloff from The Realignment Podcast speak with author and military strategy expert Christian Brose about how Ukraine will change the US competition with Russia and China
Proto Protestant https://www.thedefensepost.com/2022/03/09/lockheed-military-manufacturing-saudi/ Biden and others in the American Establishment have sought to cast the new Cold War in terms of the Liberal Democracies versus the Authoritarian States. This claim is as farcical as the Capitalist Free World versus the Communist Bloc of the first Cold War. The […]
Ep. 2088 The Continued Rise of the Antiwar Right The dissident wing of the American Right continues to show promise from a libertarian point of view, especially but not limited to foreign policy. Nothing is less fashionable than to support Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, but her recent statement […]
By William S. Lind, Traditional Right As of this writing, March 4, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has turned into a typical Russian mess. Ukraine is not dead yet. The Russian army’s logistics have broken down, as they usually do. And Russia has suffered a monumental self-inflicted defeat at […]
Ep. 2087 Where is the Russia/Ukraine Situation Headed? Scott Horton joins Tom Woods for a sober look at the present situation, answers common critics (“duh, you’re repeating Putin talking points!”), and gives us a solid backgrounder. Read the original article at TomWoods.com. http://tomwoods.com/ep-2087-where-is-the-russia-ukraine-situation-headed/
By Grayson Quay The Week The D.C.-based Institute for the Study of War concluded that “Ukrainian forces have defeated the initial Russian campaign of this war,” in an assessment published Saturday, The New York Times reported. The assessment argues that Russia had failed in its initial goal of […]
The Week Staff The autocrat’s Darwinian worldview was shaped by a grim childhood, the KGB, and the fall of the Berlin Wall. The autocrat’s Darwinian worldview was shaped by a grim childhood, the KGB, and the fall of the Berlin Wall. Here’s everything you need to know: How […]
By Benjamin H. Friedman, Justin Logan The Week Western nations on the continent are ready to face their own military destiny. In Washington, Russia’s attack on Ukraine has been a call to arms. The United States has not only sped up weapons shipments to Ukraine’s beleaguered military, it […]
By Yuliy Dubovyk Multipolarista A left-wing peace activist raised in Ukraine explains how the US government created the crisis, backing two coups in a decade, fueling a devastating civil war, and exploiting his nation as a proxy against Russia. I am a Ukrainian-American. I grew up and spent […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley 9/11 seemed to come out of nowhere when I was a kid. One minute it was all bubblegum, Britney Spears, Pokémon cards, and gender dysphoria and the next the sky was raining commercial airliners and America was at […]
By Peter Weber The Week “The Russian invasion of Ukraine has largely stalled on all fronts,” Britain’s Ministry of Defense said in a public intelligence assessment early Thursday. “Russian forces have made minimal progress on land, sea, or air in recent days and they continue to suffer heavy […]
By Jacob Heilbrunn New York Review of Books Russia’s war on Ukraine has opened up a new front in Washington’s foreign policy elite, mobilizing veterans of the cold war and Iraq. Especially on the right, a fierce fight is in prospect. Since the end of the Iraq War, […]
By Bonnie Kristian, The Week The behavior of the American press in the run-up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq is rightly notorious. So much commentary — left and right alike — as well as ostensibly objective reporting from our most prestigious outlets failed to scrutinize lies and propaganda from […]
By Caitlin Johnstone If you use Twitter and engage with the subject of the war in Ukraine, you’ve probably noticed a verified account called The Kyiv Independent pop up while you’re scrolling through your feed which puts out highly biased content in favor of the Zelensky regime and […]
Host of the Katie Halper Show, Katie Halper, weighs in on “Zelesnk thirst.”
The most dangerous internal threat we face in the USA at present is that some freak like this could potentially be President at some point. This guy is basically the Martin Sheen character from “The Dead Zone.” And Cotton is not the yokel from a Monster Truck convention […]
By Peter Weber The Week Most of Russia’s military offensives in Ukraine continue to be stalled amid fierce Ukrainian resistance, but Russia’s military continues to fire dozens of missiles and rockets at Ukrainian civilian and military targets every day, a senior U.S. defense official said at a briefing […]
By Peter R. Quiñones Your opinion on borders, guns or nationalism really isn’t relevant here. What is important is that all of you know at least one person to whom one of these is a vital issue. They ride or die with it. Some of you may be, […]
The Russian invasion may be devastating Ukraine and bringing untold harm to the citizens of both Ukraine and Russia, but the crisis has nevertheless created an opportunity – an opportunity for some members of Congress to line their pockets. It appears that a number of Congressional representatives have […]
Former National Security Advisor, General James Jones, weighs in on the latest developments between Russia and Ukraine.
War is Boring American volunteers heading to Ukraine are learning their role in the war isn’t as “heroic” as advertised, according to some of the men who return after abandoning their duties. For one so-called veteran and “Boogaloo Boy,” Ukraine’s various foreign legions were revealed to be a […]
By Peter Zeihan on March 18, 2022 This newsletter is an adapted excerpt from Peter’s upcoming book, The End of the World is Just the Beginning. Think the Europeans will need to get by without Russian crude? You are 100% correct. But you are not thinking anywhere near big […]
By Peter Zeihan on March 18, 2022 Russian President Vladimir Putin issued an early warning to foreign powers at the outset of his invasion of Ukraine: Russia’s considerable nuclear arsenal was ready to deliver a crushing blow against anyone who would meddle in Moscow’s attempt to bring Kyiv back into […]
Free Thought Project (Birch Gold Group) — In an article I published in April of 2018, titled World War III Will Be An Economic War, I outlined a number of factors that portend a large-scale conflict between East and West and why this war would be mainly economic in […]
LOL. What the hell do these harpies know about anything? I generally agree with Tucker Carlson and Tusli Gabbard (and Noam Chomsky) on foreign policy, though not necessarily on other things. Although Carlson and Gabbard are a little too deferent to Z-force for my tastes. I guess they […]
By Matt Taibbi Neoconservatives think they’ve been vindicated by Ukraine, and their new Democratic allies agree. On America’s most improbable and undeserved political comeback. Neoconservative intellectual, former Reagan speechwriter, and onetime Jeopardy champ John Podhoretz penned a triumphant column the other day. Titled, “Neoconservatism: A Vindication,” the Commentary […]
From 2018. On the various coalitions of nutters Donbass has inspired. By Aaron Lake Smith Harpers Magazine Birtherism and 9/11 Truth, it turned out, were merely the prelude to the apotheosis of American paranoia. Global conspiratorial thinking now touches all our lives. On the right, schizo-fantasies such as […]
Krystal and Saagar look at the questions posed to White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki by media reporters who are thirsting for a full-scale world war with Russia due to their invasion of Ukraine
Krystal and Saagar cover the ongoing peace talks happening with Russia and Ukraine as the war between the two countries rages on and the world tries to stop the carnage
I generally hate the media worse than I hate the ruling class itself. You can have some respect for the Machiavellian cynics in the deep state and upper strata of the power elite, the Rockefeller-Kissinger-Brzenzski-Copeland types. But the sniveling dogs who constitute the “press corps” are beyond contempt. […]
Kim Iversen details the mounting pressure placed on Russians to denounce Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.
Jen could’ve done a better job explaining to these people the circumstances. Like, “Hey guys do you want the world to be destroyed? Because the questions you guys are asking almost make it seem like that’s what you want.”
Ryan Grim, Kim Iversen, and Robby Soave react to President Biden’s approval of an additional $800 million in aid for Ukraine.
By Andrew Korybko, One World Russia’s special military operation in Ukraine gives this civilization-state a chance to defend its independence and sovereignty that are under existential threat by the US-led West. In preserving his Great Power’s geostrategic existence, President Putin is actually attempting to retain some semblance of […]
By Shawna Masiello PopTopic Hundreds of members of the “Volunteers For Ukraine” subreddit who joined the “Reddit Legion” to defend the former Soviet republic after President Zelenskyy extended an open invitation were shelled and shot after the Kremlin warned they would be treated as mercenaries and war criminals. […]
After checkmating the powerful North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) through veiled threats of nuclear weapons, is Russia now losing the battle on the ground in Ukraine? Is President Vladimir Putin losing more popular support both abroad and in Russia, after hits on civilian facilities? Their initial analysis of […]
Censorship of free speech by corporations is as bad, if not worse, than by government.
By Philip Giraldi The neocons and their allies might be making it happen Well, the genie is well and truly out of the bottle and there is no easy way to encourage it to return. Thanks to a relentless flow of propaganda, the American public has become increasingly […]
By Ron Paul As the Russian invasion of Ukraine moves past its third week, there are slight hopes that negotiations between the two sides may soon produce a ceasefire. But with the shrill warmongering talk in Washington, it almost seems like the US government would hate to see […]
By Don Surber It looks like retired Colonel Douglas Macgregor was right a week ago when he told a disbelieving Stuart Varney that Russia would take Ukraine. Macgregor said, “The first five days, Russian forces I think, frankly, were too gentle. They’ve now corrected that. So I would […]
The third week of the Russian invasion of Ukraine is covered in the fog of war and that can be confusing. In this episode we investigate some of the Russian claims of victories and advances around the country to avoid falling into a cognitive bias trap. I suggest […]
By Samuel Goldman The Week The invasion of Ukraine is only in its third week and far from resolution. But it’s already launched thousands of essays, podcasts, and tweets. While the inhabitants of Mariupol, Kyiv, and other cities face bombardment, writers and scholars in the peaceful capitals of […]
By Joel Mathis, The Week For most of the post-World War II era, the Republican Party has seemed most fully itself when America had an external enemy to confront. For all the neo-isolationism of figures like former President Donald Trump and Tucker Carlson, there are still a few […]
By Damon Linker, The Week In his address to Congress Wednesday morning, President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine made a powerful, heartrending appeal for additional aid, including a no-fly zone and additional weaponry, to help his country defend itself against Russia’s invasion. The U.S. government should keep imposing painful […]
2019 interview with Oleksiy #Arestovych, adviser to the Head of the Office of the President of #Ukraine: ‘Our price for joining #NATO is a big #war with #Russia‘.
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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