By Joel Mathis The Week Once the cycle of escalation starts, it’s hard to stop. So it’s both alarming and unsurprising that Russian leader Vladimir Putin on Sunday put his country’s nuclear forces on alert, pushing back against the flood of sanctions and angry rhetoric from Western leaders […]
By Caitlin Johnstone There is one question today that is more important than any other question that could possibly be asked, and it’s this: “Is what the US and its allies are trying to accomplish in Ukraine worth continually risking nuclear armageddon for?” Russian state media have confirmed […]
By Matt Taibbi We thought he would be our bastard. Then, he became his own bastard. The president of the Council of Foreign Relations, Richard Haass, made an extraordinary statement over the weekend. “Just days ago much of the world was focused on the unwanted prospect of regime […]
This video was really well researched, well explained and much needed to get everyone informed on what’s happening rn. Thanks for making it, it’ll only serve to educate everyone on current events.
By William S. Lind, Traditional Right As of this writing (Friday, February 25), the Russian campaign in Ukraine looks like a model of maneuver warfare, a direct follow-on to the Soviet campaign against the Japanese in Manchuria in 1945. But the year is not 1945, and the results […]
What does Putin’s invasion of Ukraine look like in China? Angeli Datt on the Beijing edit. As Russian troops press further into Ukraine, and Ukrainian citizens join with their army to fight back, reactions around the world have been emphatic. On Saturday, the United States, the United Kingdom, and […]
By Ken Klippenstein The Intercept A spat between Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Biden is pushing gas prices ever higher. It started under Obama. As Russia ordered troops into Ukraine on Monday, gas prices soared to their highest levels in over seven years. While the media […]
A new book from Kerry Bolton. In The Tyranny of Human Rights: From Jacobinism to the United Nations Bolton examines the manner by which “Enlightenment” doctrines shaped liberalism and the bloody progenies of Jacobinism and Bolshevism. Bolton demonstrates that the inevitable consequences of these doctrines being predicated on […]
By Colin Campbell, Yahoo News Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, said Sunday that “it just makes me ill” to see people inside of the Republican Party praise Russian President Vladimir Putin as he wages war against Ukraine. Romney even went as far as to describe it as “almost treasonous” […]
By Robert Mackey The Intercept Fox News clips of Tucker Carlson and Tulsi Gabbard trashing Ukraine and the Biden administration were a mainstay of news coverage this week on Russian state television. In the hours since Russia launched its military assault on Ukraine, the news on Russian state […]
By Murtaza Hussain The Intercept At a U.N. Security Council meeting, a speech by Kenyan Ambassador Martin Kimani struck at the heart of the crisis set off by Russia’s aggression. As Europe faces the grim prospect of a land war on a scale it has not seen since […]
By Caitlin Johnstone Pouring more weapons into Ukraine is not how you save lives; you save lives by negotiating a ceasefire. Pouring more weapons into Ukraine is how you create a long and expensive military quagmire for Russia at the cost of many thousands of lives to advance […]
By Amanda Macias, CNBC The U.S., European allies and Canada agreed to disconnect specific Russian banks from the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication. SWIFT is an independent enterprise based in Belgium that serves as an internal messaging system between more than 11,000 banks and financial institutions in […]
By Caitlin Johnstone Chris Hedges introduces his latest article for Scheer Post, titled “Chronicle of a War Foretold“, with the following: “After the fall of the Soviet Union, there was a near universal understanding among political leaders that NATO expansion would be a foolish provocation against Russia. How naive […]
PLEASE LIKE AND SUBSCRIBE! Pulitzer Prize–winning Journalist Chris Hedges talks about Russia, Ukraine, Nato expansion and his experience on the ground reporting from Eastern Europe during the fall of the Soviet Union. Then Phyllis Bennis, of the Institute of Policy Studies, talks about what needs to happen next. […]
By Dave Lawler, Axios Russian President Vladimir Putin said in a televised statement on Sunday that he was ordering Russia’s nuclear deterrent forces on alert, as he continues his unprovoked invasion of Ukraine. Driving the news: Speaking alongside his defense minister and military chief of staff, Putin said […]
I’m not a Marxist but if you take all of the jargon and rhetorical excess out of this, it’s a fairly astute summation. Only I would add that “imperialist war” (gang fights writ large) is the result of human competition not “capitalist competition” per se. There was plenty […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley It seems like just yesterday that our newly minted president, Joe Biden, was promising this country and the world at large a brand spanking new era of peace for Yemen. After watching two consecutive administrations facilitate Saudi Arabia […]
By Robert Parry As the Ukrainian army squares off against ultra-right and neo-Nazi militias in the west and violence against ethnic Russians continues in the east, the obvious folly of the Obama administration’s Ukraine policy has come into focus even for many who tried to ignore the facts, […]
Against Annexations and Imperial Aggression: A Statement from Russian Anarchists against Russian Aggression in Ukraine Yesterday, on February 21, an extraordinary meeting of the Russian Security Council was held. As part of this theatrical act, Putin forced his closest servants to publicly “ask” him to recognize the independence […]
By Eric Zuesse Modern Diplomacy This will document that the ‘new Cold War’ between the U.S. and Russia did not start, as the Western myth has it, with Russia’s involvement in the breakaway of Crimea and Donbass from Ukraine, after Ukraine — next door to Russia — had […]
By Ted Galen Carpenter There is an abundance of outrage in the United States about Russia’s alleged meddling in the 2016 presidential election. Multiple investigations are taking place, and Moscow’s conduct was a major justification for the sanctions legislation that Congress just passed. Some furious political figures and members of the media […]
Todd Lewis is joined by Keith Preston, Swithun Dobson and Terminal Philosophy to discuss the recent developments in the Russo-Ukrainian war and broader geopolitical implications.
By Alexander Aston Alright folks, it’s time for some analysis. Make no mistake, Putin has very real, very serious geostrategic goals in Ukraine and has made a very calculated move. We are witnessing the beginnings of an extended structural re-organisation of geopolitics that will be going on for […]
By Francis Fukuyama Quillette Vladimir Putin has launched a massive military assault on Ukraine, with the stated purpose of overthrowing the democratically-elected regime there and replacing it with one subservient to Moscow. Russian forces have arrived in the suburbs of Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv. Ukraine is a country I […]
By Tess Owen VICE Far-right personalities have declared Russia a beacon of anti-wokeness and Putin a strong ethnonationalist. White nationalist livestreamer Nicholas Fuentes has made no secret of where his loyalties lie in the Russia-Ukraine conflict. “I wish Putin was president of America,” he mused to his 45,000 […]
By Ruchi Kumar, National Post It was Masouma Tajik’s birthday on Wednesday. The Afghan refugee spent the day alone, wandering the streets of Lviv, trying to make it the best day she could in her new home. “I got a small cake, and made a wish for a […]
Yesterday afternoon, Marshall and Saagar recorded an emergency podcast reacting to Putin’s invasion of Ukraine and answered audience questions.
This interview was recorded on Tuesday 15th February before Russia invaded Ukraine. Professor John J. Mearsheimer is the R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago, where he has taught since 1982. He graduated from West Point in 1970 and then served […]
From 2018. On September 27, 2018, Yale’s Program in Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies, and the Poynter Fellowship for Journalism hosted Vladimir Pozner, the acclaimed Russian-American journalist and broadcaster. Pozner spoke on the impact of US foreign policy towards Russia after the Soviet Union has been disbanded, […]
–The “alt left” has been painfully wrong on the Putin-Ukraine-Russia situation, and we explore why and what happened
–Republican voters have a higher favorability for Vladimir Putin than they do of Democrats
By Peter Zeihan on February 25, 2022 I thought it would be helpful to collect our recent newsletters on the subject of Russia and Ukraine in a single place for easy reference. As a reminder, the Zeihan on Geopolitics newsletter is free, and a searchable archive of all past […]
By Jeva Lange The Week Russia’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine has sparked near-universal condemnation — including, on Friday, by the Taliban. In an official “statement concerning [the] crisis in Ukraine,” the Taliban, which governs Afghanistan, formally called for “restraint by both parties” in the crisis and expressed concern about the […]
By Samuel Goldman The Week On the afternoon of Aug. 5, 1990, President George H.W. Bush appeared at a press conference on the South Lawn of the White House. After reviewing developments related to Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait, Bush took questions from reporters. The last elicited the most […]
By Damon Linker, The Week Sitting in my comfortable suburban Philadelphia home, watching horrific events unfold half a world away in Ukraine while protected by the most powerful military the world has ever known, I feel overwhelmed with sadness. Yes, of course, for the suffering and shattered aspirations […]
By Andrew Sullivan Weekly Dish Putin has called the West’s bluff. Xi will not have failed to notice. Over the last few months, a conversation I had 30 years ago keeps popping into my consciousness. It was the end of the Cold War, and a post-Soviet Russian state […]
By Sean Gabb For reasons that escape my understanding, someone at The Daily Mail called me a few hours ago to ask my opinion on the present war between Russia and the Ukraine. Our discussion was organised about four questions. Here is the generality of what I said […]
Be careful what you wish for, neocons. By Harald Uhlig City-Journal “Suppose they gave a war, and nobody came?” went a 1960s antiwar slogan. Stell Dir vor, es ist Krieg, und Keiner geht hin is the German version. It’s still popular in Germany, a country of peaceniks. Germans’ […]
By Tessa Lena I am about to post a very interesting conversation with Riley Waggaman on “COVID Russia” (will send in a second) but before I do that, I want to emit a scream and talk about the war. Several things to say. One, this situation is terrible. […]
It appears the Russian public is split on Ukraine.
Kim Iversen and retired Lt. Col. Daniel Davis discuss the latest developments following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
It’s Going Down Caught between rival factions of the ruling class and the escalating possibility of world war, the exploited and excluded of the Ukraine now find themselves assaulted by an all out invasion by Putin. While authoritarians on the Left, Right and in the Center cheer on […]
The Invasion of Ukraine and Russian Product Exports Now that the question of a Russian invasion of Ukraine has proven itself not to be a hypothetical, Western governments will be pushed to respond. The United States and its European allies are likely to pursue a sanctions campaign, but […]
Todd Lewis will be joined by Keith Preston, Swithun Dobson and Terminal Philosophy to discuss the recent developments in the Russo-Ukrainian war and broader geopolitical implications.
New York Times President Vladimir Putin said he was open to talks after Kyiv said it would discuss adopting “neutral status.” Earlier, Russia’s foreign minister said Moscow would not negotiate until Ukraine stopped fighting. READ MORE
Russia Today The Ukrainian president has formally invited his Russian counterpart to engage in diplomatic talks over the current crisis. Speaking on Friday, the Ukrainian leader, Volodymyr Zelensky, extended an olive branch to Russian President Vladimir Putin, proposing negotiations, as fighting continues throughout the country and clashes get […]
By Liana Fix and Michael Kimmage Foreign Affairs When Russia joined the ongoing civil war in Syria, in the summer of 2015, it shocked the United States and its partners. Out of frustration, then President Barack Obama claimed that Syria would become a “quagmire” for Russia and Russian […]
What is Moscow thinking? Anatol Lieven on the brutal calculations behind Russia’s attack on Ukraine. Even as Russian armed forces destroy much of Ukraine’s military capability and ground troops push toward the country’s major cities—with at least dozens of civilians already dead and hundreds more wounded—Vladimir Putin’s ultimate intentions […]
By Caitlin Johnstone Putin has launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the goal of which he claims is not to occupy the country but to “demilitarize” and “de-Nazify” it. We’ve no reason to put blind faith in any of those claims. Only time will tell. As of this writing dozens […]
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