By Peter R. Quiñones At a time such as this one, no one wants to make it all about them and that’s not what I’m trying to do. But we ARE under attack. I will speak from my heart and hopefully some of this will resonate with you. […]
By Caitlin Johnstone We’re risking a very fast, very radioactive third world war defending the “democracy” of a regime who just banned eleven opposition parties. Liberals explaining why it’s fine to eliminate opposition parties when they become inconvenient is just liberals telling you who they really are. One […]
Krystal and Saagar cover how the peace talks that were taking place between Russia and Ukraine have broken down in large part due to the Kremlin’s demands for Ukraine.
By Isabel Fattal, The Atlantic “The evidence that Ukraine is winning this war is abundant, if one only looks closely at the available data,” our writer Eliot A. Cohen argues, citing Russian casualties and tactical blunders, and Ukraine’s unyielding resistance to the invasion. “The Ukrainians are doing their […]
Saagar offers his perspective on how the US media has covered India’s continued alliance with Russia as the west imposes harsh economic punishment for the invasion of Ukraine
By Peter Weber, The Week What the U.S. can learn from the war All Vladimir Putin wanted was to make Russia great again. There are many reasons Putin decided to invade Ukraine, which historians and other experts will be sussing out for years. But it seems clear that […]
By Peter Weber, The Week “Russia is suffering troop losses and has been unable to take Ukraine’s capital city of Kyiv as of yet, but the Russians are expanding their attacks,” trying to break out of their current stalemate, CNN’s Jake Tapper said Sunday. “What is going wrong […]
By Matt Smith OC Media Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is forcing Georgia’s rulers to make some tough choices, exacerbating underlying tensions between the country’s government and the populace and setting up a battle that will determine the fate of the country for years to come. In light of […]
By Tigran Grigoryan OC MEDIA The invasion of Ukraine could see an isolated and resurgent Russia in the South Caucasus, which has troubling implications for the sovereignty of Armenia and the security of Nagorno Karabakh. The Russian invasion of Ukraine completely changed the entire dynamic of Russo-Western relations […]
By Giorgi Lomsadze Eurasianet In recent years the Caucasus country has become a magnet for Iranian students, business owners, and dissidents. But now many report they’re not being allowed to enter. Names and other identifying elements in this story have been changed at the request of the interviewees […]
By Nicole Grajewski, Atlantic Council Hours after Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine on February 24, Russian President Vladimir Putin called his Iranian counterpart Ebrahim Raisi to inform him about Russia’s “special military operation.” During the call, Raisi expressed Iran’s understanding of Russia’s security concerns and affirmed the […]
By Ogul Tuna The Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington Azerbaijan’s biggest trade partners in the region, the UAE and Saudi Arabia, have shared economic interests in establishing new trade links, but they also share common threat perceptions regarding Iran and radicalism. At the crossroads of east-west and […]
By Heydar Isayev Eurasianet Azerbaijan and Iran have signed a transit agreement that could have big implications for Armenia. One of Azerbaijan’s key demands after winning the 44-day war in 2020 was for Armenia to allow it overland access to its Nakhchivan exclave, a piece of territory surrounded […]
By Max Blumenthal, The Gray Zone Testimony by evacuated Mariupol residents and warnings of a false flag attack undermine the Ukrainian government’s claims about a Russian bombing of a local theater sheltering civilians. Western media have reported that Russia’s military deliberately attacked the Donetsk Academic Regional Drama theater […]
Ryan Grim, Robby Soave, and Kim Iversen discuss the detention of basketball player, Brittney Griner, in Russia.
Krystal and Saagar analyze the significance of Putin’s decision to fire a hypersonic missile in Ukraine as a warning to NATO and a statement about the military capabilities Russia possesses
Krystal and Saagar are joined by journalist Murtaza Hussain to take an in depth look at the US relationship with Saudi Arabia and how they influence American elections for their own benefit
I think the disconnect here is that Armin the Mujahideen WAS a policy success, it was the most successful policy ever done by the military-industrial complex. Not only did they make massive profits, but the eventual attack on 9/11 has guaranteed massive profits forever. Dead people and human […]
Krystal and Saagar provide an update on the domestic politics in Ukraine now that President Zelensky has shut down most opposition parties and taken control of the media
Krystal looks at how the lesser covered US foreign policy decisions on the war in Ukraine could jeopardize peace talks and lead to greater destruction due to a prolonged war effort
Krystal and Saagar go through the tone shift from China on the Russian invasion of Ukraine as the CCP now blames NATO and is looking to strengthen its ties to Russia
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 […]
Krystal and Saagar cover the military developments in Ukraine as the Russians advance and the media pushes a false narrative of a stalemate taking place with the Ukrainians
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
A necessary precision here: none of the 11 suspended (and not banned) parties are left-wing. The Ukrainian Socialist Party is a conservative party lead by a neofascist, the Progressive Socialist Party is officially part of Putin’s coalition (the only non-Russian party to be part of that coalition), the […]
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 Andrea Marks, Rolling Stone In the new podcast ‘Wind of Change,’ host Patrick Radden Keefe explores how the CIA used music to change hearts and minds. What if it turned out your favorite song had been written by the CIA? That’s exactly what a new podcast aims […]
By Peter Zeihan on March 19, 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 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 Gabriel Noah Brahm and Orian Morris TELOS Is Putin the madman they say? Or is he, to the contrary, somebody who coldly calculates his rational self-interest, in the manner of Thomas Hobbes’s legendary sovereign power or Niccolò Machiavelli’s eponymous prince? In short, is it surrealism, rooted in […]
The depression in Russia after the USSR fell makes the American Great Depression look like a cake walk – it was completely brutal and made much worse by the American advisors: Greenspan, Summers, and Rubin. They WRECKED Russia, completely wrecked it.
Like most modern system, China has some of both, although China leans more toward socialism than the USA or the West generally. Their system is more or less the same thing as Lenin’s New Economic Policy. LISTEN HERE Will China resist financialization and lead the way on climate […]
One of the by-products of the Ukraine War appears to be a more assertive Europe. While I am not a fan of the EU, I generally favor the dissolution of unipolarity into regional power blocks, such as Atlanticism, the European Union, and the BRICS. Although a more assertive, […]
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 […]
ABC News’ Will Carr reports from Tijuana, Mexico, where Ukrainians and Russians are coexisting as they wait to enter the United States seeking asylum.
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