Hot Takes Are Making the Ukraine Invasion Worse
Our political and media elites should think twice before they swarm social media like Russian tanks driving deep into Ukraine.
Bernie Adviser GRADES Biden On Ukraine Response
Krystal and Kyle Kulinski of Krystal Kyle and Friends talk with Bernie Sanders foreign policy adviser Matt Duss about Biden’s response to Putin’s invasion of Ukraine
What Ukraine War REVEALS About US Economy
Krystal and Saagar have economic policy expert Matt Stoller break down the Russian invasion of Ukraine’s revealing of US economic vulnerability as part of an ongoing collaboration
The Ukrainian Beartrap: When Simulacra Bites Back
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley “Our entire linear and accumulative culture collapses if we cannot stockpile the past in plain view.” Jean Baudrillard, The Procession of Simulacra “I would die happy if I knew that on my tombstone could be written these words, […]
Here’s why sanctions on Russia aren’t the answer
There’s a lot to talk about: the State of the Union address, Kanye, the future of Russia’s invasion of the Ukraine. We try to get to it all on this episode of KK&F. And we’re helped by our special guest, Matt Duss, a foreign policy expert who’s worked […]
The Russian Security Crisis, Ukraine & Soviet Borders | Peter Zeihan
Russia’s position is that the West is trying to encircle them in Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, and Central Asia. Their goal is to restore total hegemony over the territories of the former USSR and the old Russian Empire. Ironically, by invading Ukraine, they’re making encirclement more immediately likely. […]
Sen. Graham says it would be ‘a great service’ if a Kremlin official killed Putin
Like the Russians don’t have a plan of succession. Lindsay apparently doesn’t realize the practice of statecraft has evolved a bit since antiquity or the Middle Ages. Modern states are corporate entities that have an institutional life of their own apart from the individual personalities involved. It’s not […]
Rep. Ro Khanna REJECTS No Fly Zone Over Ukraine
Krystal and Saagar talk to congressman Ro Khanna from Silicon Valley about tech policy and how America should respond to Putin’s invasion of Ukraine
History Says our Wartime Sanctions will BACKFIRE
Krystal examines the economic consequences of the west’s wartime sanctions on Russia in response to the invasion of Ukraine and how they could backfire in terms of stopping Putin
Hannity Says US Should SECRETLY Bomb Russian Convoy
Krystal and Saagar look at how right wing media figures have escalated hawkish rhetoric on the Ukraine war including a call from Sean Hannity to wage a secret bombing campaign on Russian forces
Trump FLIP FLOP: Says Putin’s Ukraine Invasion ‘HOLOCAUST’
Krystal and Saagar cover the flip flop by former President Trump in response to the invasion of Ukraine by Putin as hawkish rhetoric in the GOP heats up
ANALYSIS: Is China TURNING On Russian Invasion?
Krystal and Saagar analyze the response from China to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the western world’s economic punishment of the Putin regime
Russia Loses HUNDREDS Of Troops As 1 MILLION Refugees Flee
Krystal and Saagar evaluate the first casualty numbers to come out of the Russian side of the war in Ukraine as the chaos creates a refugee crisis for those coming from Ukraine
BATTLE UPDATE: Russia Grabs BIG Victory, Kiev Convoy STALLS
Krystal and Saagar bring another battle update to viewers as Russians get a major victory in a Ukrainian city while their convoy outside of Kiev is plagued with problems.
The Overton Window Is Being Shoved Toward Warmongering Extremism
By Caitlin Johnstone A substitute teacher at an Arlington, Virginia middle school has been suspended for teaching an insufficiently one-sided perspective on the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Apparently one of the students recorded the lesson and showed it to their parents who complained to the school. This happens […]
Ukrainian Anarchists Mobilize for Armed Defense, Draw Solidarity from Abroad as Russia Invades
The Militant Wire The international reaction of anarchist movements to Russia’s current war in Ukraine has overwhelmingly been one of solidarity with the Ukrainian people and resistance towards Vladimir Putin’s irridentism. However, there has been some variation therein, with almost no support for Russian aggression, which one can […]
Ukraine War: Russian Retreat? Unlikely.
Russian Military ability is called into question. Can the Ukraine armed forces hold out long enough to repel the Russian invasion? Follow Chris Cappy: https://www.instagram.com/cappyarmy
Ukraine Russia War The Average Soldier’s Perspective
What is your average Ukrainian and Russian Infantryman thinking? Follow Chris Cappy: https://www.instagram.com/cappyarmy
Russo-Ukraine War: What the West Doesn’t Understand
What western military analysts miss and we track the Russian invasion minute by minute. Follow Chris Cappy: https://www.instagram.com/cappyarmy
DC’s Russia House restaurant vandalized; police investigating as possible hate crime
By Mike Murillo, WTOP Days before reopening since being closed for almost two years due to the pandemic, a D.C. restaurant will remain closed after vandals targeted its building twice with anti-Russian messages. Aaron McGovern, the co-owner of Russia House Restaurant and Lounge on Connecticut Avenue, said someone […]
Tears for Ukraine, Sanctions for Russia, Yawns for Yemen, Arms for Saudis: The West’s Grotesque Double Standard
Free Thought Project (MPN) — HAJJAH, YEMEN – “We’re brutally bombed every day. So why doesn’t the Western world care like it does about Ukraine?!!… Is it because we don’t have blonde hair and blue eyes like Ukrainians?” Ahmed Tamri, a Yemeni father of four, asked with furrowed brows […]
Don’t Cancel Regular Russians
By Christian Britschgi Reason Yanking The Batman from Moscow theaters won’t bring peace to Ukraine, it will just sever much-needed cultural connection with everyday Russians. Last Thursday, Russian President Vladimir Putin launched a violent invasion of neighboring Ukraine. Late that night East Coast time, the D.C. bar and […]
The Failures and Dangers of John Mearsheimer’s Ukraine Argument
By Patrick Rhamey As someone who works with questions of power, major power status, and international conflict, I want to address the use of John Mearsheimer’s views on Ukraine by the Russian MFA for propaganda purposes. I had the opportunity to listen to Mearsheimer’s talk on Ukraine for […]
Kherson has fallen. Odessa is next. Moldova soon after
After an embattled few days, the southern Ukrainian city of Kherson has fallen to invading Russian troops, The New York Times reports. Kherson mayor Igor Kolykhaev met today with the local Russian commander who plans to set up a military administration in the area, according to the newspaper. […]
Vladimir Putin sits atop a crumbling pyramid of power
By Vladimir Sorokin, The Guardian Putin’s end goal isn’t Ukraine but western civilization – the hatred for which he lapped up in the black milk he drank from the KGB’s teat. n 24 February, the armor of the “enlightened autocrat” that had housed Vladimir Putin for the previous 20 years […]
Pat Robertson Says Putin Invasion ORDERED BY GOD
So weird seeing Pat come out of the grave— I mean retirement.
Hillary’s DERANGED ‘Mujahideen’ Strategy To FIGHT Russia
She laughs when she says “there were other unintended consequences, as we know”
We’re At The ‘Justifying Killing Children’ Part Of The War Now
There’s no “morality” in state-based politics – just expediency.
SHOCKING Russia/ Ukraine War Polls
To be fair, if you poll these people with the question “where is Ukraine” you would probably get answers like 20% in or near Russia 30% in Asia 50% undecided
Putin’s brutal record in Chechnya and Syria is ominous for Ukraine
By Jason Fields The Week Wars aren’t civilized. The very definition of war includes death and cruelty, and everyone who dies has loved ones who mourn them. But some wars are more brutal than others, more deadly to civilians, and Russia’s recent wars in Chechnya and Syria stand […]
Belarusian president displays map suggesting Putin plans to attack Moldova
By Grayson Quay The Week Russia may be planning aggressive moves against the Republic of Moldova, according to a map Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko displayed during a meeting of his country’s security council. Lukashenko is a close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin. He seemingly allowed Putin to […]
Biden says it’s ‘clear’ Russian forces are targeting Ukrainian civilians, but too ‘early to say’ if they’re committing war crimes
By Grayson Quay The Week President Biden told reporters Wednesday that Russian forces are deliberately targeting Ukrainian civilians but that he cannot yet say with certainty whether Russia has committed war crimes, The Hill reports. When asked if Russia was intentionally targeting civilians in Ukraine, Biden said, “It’s […]
U.S. and Britain reportedly believe the Ukraine war could last 10-20 years, become a Russian quagmire
By Peter Weber The Week As the sun rises on a seventh day of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, a 40-mile-long Russian military convoy appears stalled about 20 miles north of Kyiv, and the Ukrainian-held cities of Kharkiv, Kherson, and Mariupol are encircled. Russia also intensified its bombing of cities on Tuesday, […]
Only 5 countries, including North Korea, vote against U.N. resolution condemning Russia
By Grayson Quay The Week Simon & Garfunkel once described a scenario in which “friends just can’t be found,” and one can easily imagine that, following Wednesday’s United Nations vote condemning Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin and company might find solace in listening to “Bridge […]
Idiots Call For US To Attack Russian Planes & Start World War 3
Even in Vietnam, the Soviet Union realized that they couldn’t completely humiliate the United States because they didn’t want to risk massive escalation. They wanted to weaken the US but not start a nuclear war. Towards the end of the war, they were pushing Hanoi to the diplomatic […]
”Ukraine Will Be Wrecked.” OMINOUS Warnings Of NATO-Provoked War Given For DECADES
Kim Iversen highlights previous warnings from world leaders that NATO expansion would lead to a Russian invasion of Ukraine.
How Wall Street Is PROTECTING Russian Oligarchs
Krystal and Saagar are joined by Daily Poster founder David Sirota to uncover how Wall Street’s fight for lax transparency laws helps protect Russian oligarchs from US sanctions
Russia Ukraine conflict: More than 2,000 civilians dead in first week of invasion, says Ukraine
Ferocious shelling in the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv has killed at least 21 people and injured over a hundred in the last 24 hours, say local authorities
Ukraine: Putin’s Lebensraum
by Brian Czech People tend to think of Russia as a wide-open country with plenty of space for economic growth. While it may take days to ride the trans-Siberian railway, any notion of an empty Russia is as antiquated as Dr. Zhivago. European Russia, especially, has been cultivated, […]
Ukraine: How Can the War End?
By Craig Murray I could not believe Putin really would invade Ukraine, because I could see no sensible outcome for him. I still cannot. Initiating a war on this scale has no legal justification, and no moral justification either. Russian troops are in areas which have no wish […]
We Should Cover Everyone Like We’re Covering Ukrainians
By Jack Mirkinson People following the mainstream coverage of Ukraine are getting an excellent lesson in media double standards. Running alongside the ongoing horror of the war in Ukraine has been a pernicious thread of racism and hypocrisy in some of the coverage of the conflict. If you […]
Every US Enemy Is Hitler
By Caitlin Johnstone It’s just incredible how even after all this time, after all those wars, after all those lies, it’s not even occurring to most mainstream westerners to investigate whether the US could possibly have had anything to do with starting the war in Ukraine. There’s one […]
Russia’s Jewish oligarchs and their donations come under threat of Western sanctions amid Ukraine war
By Asaf Shalev Jewish Telegraphic Agency Russia’s Jewish oligarchs and their donations come under threat of Western sanctions amid Ukraine war. (JTA) – Jewish communities in Ukraine received a $10 million gift from a perhaps unlikely source Monday: a charitable organization founded by three Russian Jewish oligarchs who […]
Ukraine’s Gay Combat Volunteers Are Ready to Fight for Their Lives Against Anti-LGBTQ Putin
By Ankush Kumar, Yahoo News Desperate to avoid the shadow of Vladimir Putin’s bigoted regime falling over Ukraine, LGBTQ combat volunteers told The Daily Beast that members of the gay community had been rushing to prepare for this invasion of Ukraine in recent weeks. Now, they stand ready […]
None of this needed to happen
By Indian Bronson Let us pray this ends soon, that peace talks proceed, and there is no escalation. Out of a genuine appreciation for my readers, who humor me by reading my self-important perspectives (What’s the Venn diagram of people who can read the title and get the […]
Ukraine: The Propaganda Wars
By Daniel McAdams, Ron Paul Institute he media and the war machine (or do I repeat myself?) want us to take sides in the Russo/Ukraine war. To those of us with long histories in military conflicts in which the US foreign policy establishment, media, and military have an […]
We’ve all agreed Putin is wrong. Now what?
By Damon Linker, The Week How fast have events been moving over the past several days? So fast that my initial take on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, written Thursday morning, just hours after the war began, is already irrelevant. Then, I mainly expressed sadness at what I expected […]
Fox News Floats Killing Putin
The people who will never set foot on a battlefield always have the toughest talk
Hillary’s TONE DEAF Maddow Appearance Adds New Layer To Russia-Ukraine HYPOCRISY
Ryan Grim, Kim Iversen, and Robby Soave react to Hillary Clinton’s recent comments on MSNBC regarding the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Zelensky Calls Bombing Of Kharkiv A WAR CRIME, Civilian Center Hit
Research director at the European Expert Association, Maria Avdeeva, describes the atmosphere on the ground in Kharkiv after facing Russian rocket fire.
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