By Peter Zeihan on March 14, 2022 Demographics is one of the cornerstones of how we understand the world here at Zeihan on Geopolitics. Few countries have had as difficult a series of demographic challenges as the Russians. Beginning with World War I, the Russians faced serious demographic headwinds. […]
Professor of economics, Bryan D. Caplan, details Ukraine’s effort to bribe Russian soldiers into deserting.
Journalist Nancy Rommelmann joins the hosts on the ground from Ukraine.
Ryan Grim and Robby Soave react to calls by University of Chicago students calling for the cancellation of John Mearsheimer over alleged Putinism.
Pollster Nancy Zdunkewicz breaks down the American public’s views towards sanctions imposed on Russia.
Marshall Kosloff of The Realignment podcast talks with counterinsurgency expert Dr. David Kilcullen about the state of Russia’s military and whether they could win a protracted war of occupation.
Krystal and Saagar respond to the comments made by Facebook executive Sheryl Sandberg about how women would never start wars, ignoring the legacy of Hillary Clinton
Krystal and Kyle Kulinski of Krystal Kyle & Friends are joined by foreign policy expert Dr.Trita Parsi to unpack the situation in Ukraine and how the western sanctions against Russia might not work as intended
By Zosia Brom, Freedom News Editor Earlier this week, the Polish parliamentary progressive left party, Razem, issued a statement in which they announce that they are cutting ties with two European organisations: Progressive International and DiEM25. “The Russian aggression in Ukraine demands a lot of work from us […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley It’s super hip to give a fuck about Ukraine right now. Everybody’s doing it! All the cool kids anyway. Everywhere you look it’s blue and yellow, blue and yellow, blue and yellow. There seems to be a Ukrainian […]
This is a very good summary of the Russian perspective.
By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA Associated Press, ABC News BAGHDAD — As many as 12 missiles struck Iraq’s northern city of Irbil on Sunday near the U.S. consulate, Iraqi security officials said. A U.S. defense official said missiles had been launched at the city from neighboring Iran. No injuries were […]
The bottom line: Russia sucks. Far too many Western radicals, left and right, have jumped on the “I <3 Russia!” bandwagon. What is happening now is an intramural conflict within the global ruling class/power elite that was identified by Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri. “A futile war between […]
Open Society Foundation NEW YORK/BERLIN/KYIV—The Open Society Foundations today are pledging an initial $25 million to launch the Ukraine Democracy Fund and urge other funders to join us in supporting civil society in Ukraine in response to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s assault on democracy. This initiative builds on […]
This week, we’re joined by Trita Parsi, executive vice president of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. With Dr. Parsi, we discuss why this moment demands that the U.S. disentangle itself from hawkish, war-bent alliances, how the situation relates to Middle Eastern politics, Dr. Parsi’s strong case against […]
By Nicolas Niarchos and Nikolai von Bismarck The Nation Przemyśl, Poland—It is 10 hours by train from here to Gdánsk, six hours to Warsaw, four hours to Kraków. “Some of these people don’t even know where Gdánsk is,” Yulia volunteered, smoking outside the station here as streams of […]
By Andrew Sullivan An invasion in Europe has exposed the flimsiness of post-liberalism. It would perhaps be too glorious an irony if it were Vladimir Putin who finally buzz-killed the American and European right’s infatuation with post-liberalism. But, as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine staggers shambolically and criminally forward, […]
By Peter Weber The Week Russian forces continue to make inroads in southern Ukraine, but few military experts seem to think the war is going very well for Russia. The invading army has suffered “very, very significant casualties,” a U.S. official told CBS News on Wednesday, putting the U.S. […]
“Only making the situation worse” perfectly describes Hillary’s entire career
It is good to remember that while USA now needs Venezuela on its side because it needs to replace Russian oil, Venezuela is also going to need new allies (or at least less enemies), because Russia has always been a close friend to many South American countries, and […]
I think it might also depend on your relationship to your country, its history etc. It’s not straightforward; let’s keep it real. A more interesting question worth asking is “What would you die for?” I think you might find that for some people their nation would be lower […]
Pollster Nancy Zdunkewicz breaks down the American public’s views towards sanctions imposed on Russia.
Host of the Bad Faith Podcast, Briahna Joy Gray, weighs in reports that the Pentagon Defense Budget for FY 2023 could surpass $770 Billion.
Ryan Grim, Kim Iversen, and Robby Soave discuss the $1.5T spending package passed by the House last night.
Krystal and Saagar cover the decision by Marjorie Taylor Greene to buy the surging defense company stocks while she publicly decries the profits being made off war in Ukraine
By Razib Khan, City-Journal For many of us Cold War kids, the Soviet Union, the Eastern Bloc, and the battle between capitalism and global Communism were just background conditions of our youth. But in the United States, what we really talked about wasn’t the Soviets or the Communists […]
By Caitlin Johnstone Reuters reports that Facebook and Instagram are now allowing calls for the death of Russians and Russian leaders in exemption from the platforms’ hate speech terms of service due to the war in Ukraine: “Meta Platforms will allow Facebook and Instagram users in some countries […]
Please join us today, March 11, for our webinar and Q&A session on the impacts of the Ukraine War and Russian sanctions on global agricultural markets. Fertilizers, fuels, feed grain and cheap wheat–we’ve seen prices across the board jump in recent weeks following Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine. We […]
The Signal How is propaganda from Russia shaping the global context of the war in Ukraine? Mike Smeltzer on the Kremlin’s program for manipulating the media at home and abroad. Western leaders are fighting an information war, as Russia continues to press its invasion of Ukraine. The European […]
By Rachel Wilson It is always a challenge to get accurate information during wartime. You can also be sure that an avalanche of propaganda and disinformation are coming in the wake of such events in the world. It is said that propaganda is the most important front in […]
By Mikhaila Peterson In this episode, I spoke with two members of the government, one in Ukraine and one in Russia. I don’t believe these guys necessarily have the view of an average Russian or Ukrainian. However, they do represent people in their countries. First I spoke with […]
By Linh Dinh Laying siege to a city, you’re not just cutting it off from reinforcement and supplies, but information. In Ukraine, the Russians aren’t quite doing that. Even more incredibly, they still allow trains to run. Two weeks into Russia’s invasion, you can still take a train […]
By Harold James, Quillette February 24th, 2022, constituted a shock to the European psyche. The invasion of Ukraine, without any plausible casus belli, the massive use of military force against civilians, the attempted hunting down of a legitimately elected government, all came as a complete surprise. But so […]
Free Thought Project KIEV, UKRAINE (THE GRAYZONE) — Back in October 2019, as the war in eastern Ukraine dragged on, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky traveled to Zolote, a town situated firmly in the “gray zone” of Donbas, where over 14,000 had been killed, mostly on the pro-Russian side. There, the president encountered the […]
By Tom O’Connor Newsweek An official of the U.S.-led NATO alliance has told Newsweek that the coalition did not notice what appeared to be a symbol associated with Nazism on the uniform of a Ukrainian soldier featured in a since-deleted photo on NATO’s official Twitter account. The image, […]
By Sam Soko, Haaretz Just before Israeli President Herzog arrives for Turkey visit, Erdogan’s adviser says in an antisemitic tweet that Ukraine and its people ‘are being used up and thrown away’ A senior adviser to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan accused Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy of leading his […]
By Damon Linker, The Week After several rounds of peace negotiations between Russia and Ukraine, Russia has begun to state explicitly (via foreign ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova) that its war aims do not include overthrowing the elected government of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky or occupying the country. Welcome […]
By Peter R. Quiñones I know, it’s anathema to ask. Even people I respect, when they say they’re not taking sides, always qualify with a “well, we know Putin’s a bad guy!” Do you? How? “Well, we just do. You know he’s a trillionaire, right?” No, I don’t […]
For day five of The Realignment’s near-daily Ukraine coverage, Marshall speaks with return Realignment guest and host of the Hidden Forces podcast, Demetri Kofinas. They cover the current state of the Ukraine crisis.
Congresswoman Ilhan Omar responds to reports that the Biden Administration is considering a visit to Saudi Arabia to help repair relations and convince the Kingdom to pump more oil.
For day three of The Realignment’s near-daily Ukraine coverage, Marshall spoke with Dr. David Kilcullen, a theorist and practitioner of guerilla and unconventional warfare. They cover the present state of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and whether the conflict could transition into a drawn-out war of resistance/insurgency. Dr. Kilcullen’s […]
Krystal defends Congresswoman’s Ilhan Omar’s Russia-Ukraine decisions as she gets dragged in the media for not being sufficiently hawkish
For day four of The Realignment’s near-daily Ukraine coverage, Marshall speaks with return Realignment guest Alec Ross, author of The Raging 2020s: Companies, Countries, People – and the Fight for Our Future and The Industries of the Future, joins The Realignment to discuss the factors
For day six of The Realignment’s near-daily Ukraine coverage, Marshall spoke with Hal Brands, author of The Twilight Struggle: What the Cold War Teaches About Great-Power Rivalry Today, John Hopkins University professor, AEI Resident Fellow, and Bloomberg columnist. They discussed America’s successes and failures during the Cold War, […]
Krystal and Saagar respond to the failed diplomatic efforts by President Biden to get more oil drilling by Saudi Arabia in response to surging oil prices after the Russian ban
Marshall and Saagar continue their one-on-one discussions of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Krystal and Saagar cover the impact that companies such as McDonald’s withdrawing from Russia’s economy will have on their economy as investors are now forecasting a rapid debt default
Will Jawando and Pamela Denise Long discuss racism in the mainstream media’s coverage of the war in Ukraine.
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