The Russian tanks have been seen with metal cages on top of their turret during the invasion of Ukraine. While looking like something like a homemade quick throw-on, what benefit are these cages and what are they supposed to do?
There are a lot of videos coming out of Ukraine, leading to a lot of opinions. Not to be a wet blanket, but I caution that these are merely small data points, and normally will only permit conclusions supported by that one snippet, not larger trends.
By Mike Whitney, The Seeker Mike Whitney – The Unz Review March 21, 2022 Question 1– Can you explain to me why you think Russia is winning the war in Ukraine? Larry C. Johnson– Within the first 24 hours of the Russian military operation in Ukraine, all Ukrainian […]
The Grayzone’s Max Blumenthal and Aaron Mate talk live with ex-UN weapons inspector and military expert Scott Ritter about the Russia-Ukraine war. Ritter provides a detailed analysis of the battlefield that stands in stark contrast to the rose-colored perspective of most Western analysts, and offers his perspective on […]
Shaunna Thomas and Pamela Denise Long react to new reporting from Insider identifying 19 members of Congress who stand to profit off of the war in Ukraine due to their Raytheon and Lockheed Martin stock holdings.
White House reporters love two things more than any others – getting to be on camera when they ask questions, and war. And thanks to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the current crop of predominantly women who comprise the White House press pool have been able to explore […]
Krystal and Saagar give the newest information on the war in Ukraine as Biden calls Putin a war criminal putting US-Russia diplomatic ties on edge
Former senior advisor the Secretary of Defense Col. Doug Macgregor joins Max Blumenthal and Aaron Mate for a candid, live discussion of the Russia-Ukraine war and his time in the Trump administration when an Afghan withdrawal was sabotaged and conflict with Iran and Syria continued.
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 […]
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 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 […]
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 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 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
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
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, […]
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 […]
Former National Security Advisor, General James Jones, weighs in on the latest developments between Russia and Ukraine.
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
Yep. Huge oceans to the East and West, weak nations to the North and South, continent-wide regime, world’s third-largest population, and no other major powers in the hemisphere. Plus unprecedented wealth and technology, and nuclear weapons. The best possible defenses imaginable. By Blake Stilwell Military.Com Real estate is […]
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 […]
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‘.
This week, Briahna Joy Gray spoke to Bernie Sanders’ foreign policy advisor, Matt Duss, about the escalating conflict in Ukraine. The left has split in its approach to this issue, with difference sides accusing one another of imperialism or being Putin-puppets respectively. Briahna attempts to get to the […]
This week, Briahna Joy Gray speaks to Tribune staff writer and author Grace Blakeley about whether war in Ukraine, and the resulting sanctions, might mark the beginning of the end of the US dollar’s supremacy as the global reserve currency.
This week, Briahna Joy Gray speaks with Washington Editor of Harper’s Andrew Cockburn about his book The Spoils of War: Power, Profit, and the American War Machine. Cockburn is an expert on nuclear risk, war profiteering, and the pernicious reach of the military industrial complex, and he brings […]
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